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Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work
(www.theguardian.com)
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Most people have PCs in their homes of which 99% of their computational power goes unused. Is there a reason training models couldn't be done p2p?
It’s an interesting concept and there are tools that achieve it on a local network, but it’s not Folding at Home. It would be a massive security hellscape IMO, and it’s not worth the insane power requirements for what folks are doing with it. You’d be hard pressed to find people that would be willing to lend power, bandwidth, and hardware to that, especially when it doesn’t have a meaningful focused purpose.