I don't understand why this is set up the way it is. Maintaining a BitTorrent tracker for models seems like a reasonably good idea, but you have to "apply to join" to be able to contribute?
I can definitely picture a piece of content that's been scrubbed from everywhere except old copies of LLMs in which it still exists in a lossy form, with people trying to extract it from those old copies with the help of newer models. Private trackers have thrived for decades and will continue to do so because they allow a community to foster around a shared purpose (pardon the pun).
Although that being said, i doubt i would go through the trouble of signing up just for this purpose, personally.
Just do it like how libgen does. Maybe publish a RSS torrent feed people can subscribe to for the newer publications - knowing someone is curating the feed.
Weird to have open licensed stuff on private tracker.
Why the restriction to safetensors and GGUF? onnx is the more common format and specifically made for interchange.
removed
I don't understand why this is set up the way it is. Maintaining a BitTorrent tracker for models seems like a reasonably good idea, but you have to "apply to join" to be able to contribute?
To what end?
Accountability?
You mean for people trying to poison the swarm? Or what? I'm genuinely confused.
people not maintaining 1:1 ratio, read about private trackers
The content will be mostly obsolete LLM models. I don't see the incentive to download them in large quantities.
I can definitely picture a piece of content that's been scrubbed from everywhere except old copies of LLMs in which it still exists in a lossy form, with people trying to extract it from those old copies with the help of newer models. Private trackers have thrived for decades and will continue to do so because they allow a community to foster around a shared purpose (pardon the pun).
Although that being said, i doubt i would go through the trouble of signing up just for this purpose, personally.
Just do it like how libgen does. Maybe publish a RSS torrent feed people can subscribe to for the newer publications - knowing someone is curating the feed.
Weird to have open licensed stuff on private tracker.
I love this, but why do I have to login tho? Would love to seed if you remove login
login and then i'll tell you