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[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

...Why tho? Are people worried about legitimately useful models getting banned? Because this feels to me like an attempt to preserve models that do explicitly unethical things.

[–] tomatolung@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 hours ago

the trend is currently that oen weight models are going proprietary as they are trying to find methods of making money, so capturing what exists of them might make the last one before they go closed still feasible to retrieve.

[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

unethical things

You mean like anything that goes against pro-corprate neoliberal values? It should be. We should fight to preserve models like that the same way we fight to have spaces to stay that stuff ourselves.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

No I mean like suicide encouragement and child porn.

[–] Womble@piefed.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Those go against pro-corporate values (at least the ones that they outwardly want to show). Currently your only choice are let the corporations pick what is acceptable for you, or have an anything goes model and take responsibility for yourself.

[–] blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 20 hours ago

If "unethical" means "things Nvidia doesn't want you to do", then yes.

[–] Zeniv@lemmy.quasarke.net 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Because both major GPU manufacturers are controlled by the same family. The primary model repo is controlled by that same family now. Both major pipelines are controlled by that same family. ONNX and the diffusion pipelines are maintained by Microsoft. The alternatives are controlled by hyperscalers (with the exception of civitai I guess). All frontier model pipelines are directly controlled by a single family in China. So its very much possible that you could be banned from accessing them yes. We really don't need a pirate instance we just need AN instance at this point.

[–] NotFrenchJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 20 hours ago

You don't even need an account to grab from HF. And ironically, the only people who sometimes need mirrors are Chinese users.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's because Nvidia bought huggingface, and everyone expects them to start deleting anything unprofitable, not just potentially objectionable.

anything unprofitable, not just potentially objectionable.

Those are the same thing to them...