Since fable 5 went down just some time ago(although this is no longer the case), a lot of fable or Mythos related content including models and datasets were completely killed from HF, it seemed like such a blow to the local development community to lose such important files, this is what inspired me to work on my project, it’s a p2p decentralized distribution network (aka a torrent site) that pulls files from HF and verifies them through sha256, I’ve been making slow and steady progress but so far I haven’t made a single public post about it. I’m genuinely scared of a number of things happening, that the project won’t gain traction, ridicule from more experienced developers, I’m also worried about security vulnerabilities which I’m sure I haven’t fully patched yet…
How do I get over this fear of talking about my project? How do I gain stars on GitHub, and community engagement? After all, a decentralized distribution network is nothing without its peers…
Sorry but you’re screwed. Lemmy is filled with an Anti-AI army of users ready to downvote every post you’ll make.
2 options: tough it up, or gang up with other AI devs and create an AI friendly community for FOSS / selfhosted apps.
Personally, I don’t care if it was AI assisted. I only care if it’s good or not. And by “good” I mean a lot of things. Including but not limited to:
- Maintenance history
- Contributors
- Performance
- Code quality / readability
- Documentation
- Dependancies
- Security
- Privacy
- UX/UI
- and more
I mean I support this in terms of decentralization. I think lemmy wont be as receptive as they’re allergic to AI.
There’s a difference between being allergic to AI and being allergic to LLMs shoved everywhere they don’t belong. There’s good use cases for AI and LLMs in particular, but I have rarely seen it being used well. Most people who unconditionally support AI usage are incompetent idiots who couldn’t do anything without AI.
Sorry, I don’t speak AI zealot speak, what is HF (huggingface.co?) and why do you need to host proprietary models there?
No proprietary models are hosted, you can only access models hosted by the community or ones with open source weights,
To answer your question (I’m assuming you are talking about me hosting it, not HF), I do actually pull LLMs from HF, but also a lot of other files, including audio models, datasets, and AI adjacent systems such as retrieval systems, etc.
I think my project has primary use cases beyond LLMs.
