23 daysI’m surprised that this wasn’t already the case. Model files are massive and torrents (the technology) are a good way to get those files around. It also provides another way to verify which models are popular based on the number of seeders, instead of relying solely on what each website claims is popular.
- Robin@lemmy.worldEnglish22 days
“each website” being huggingface and modelscope. The hosting of these files is being subsidized by those two entities. HF was just bought by Nvidia. It’s just a matter of time before they try to squeeze out a return. Not sure who is funding modelscope. Anyway, this site popping up is somewhat of a reaction to this.
- 22 days
It’s just a matter of time before they try to squeeze out a return.
Also use their power to squash models they don’t approve of, like open source ones, or uncensored/abliterated ones.
- cecilkorik@piefed.caEnglish22 days
I feel like the biggest issue is the way they include all files for each model in a single torrent. Realistically I think most of the time people are going to want to download a single quantization (like Q4 which is like the 1080p sweet spot for most models), not all of them, and I think most of the time torrents are going to end up in that horrible partial-seeding state where most sources only seed a few of the files.
- mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish20 days
Is that worse than splitting everything individually and having most of them be dead?
- fibojoly@sh.itjust.worksEnglish12 days
Nice! I’ve been wondering why this wasn’t the default distribution mode. Big ass files that a lot of people want seem like a good candidate for torrenting. I’ll have to check it out.
