friendly reminder you can legally torrent ai models.

Repost because reddit keeps thinking this is piracy or illegal. It is neither.

A lot of people are skeptical Nvidia will keep huggingface intact now that they will buy huggingface. There's a lot of doom and gloom about not having any alternatives, removing nsfw models, saying there's no decentralized alternative or just not trusting what Nvidia might do with huggingface.

A lot of us probably tune out torrenting or other P2P networks because they have a bad reputation for piracy and related ISP threats. But, models on huggingface are technically not piracy, so you can download and host people's downloads just fine via torrents or any P2P networks. That is the decentralized alternative we have now. use qBitTorrent or whatever torrenting software you want. I don't know about any trackers besides huggingbay and llama garden, modelregistry io and ckpt cc

and if you really need a centralized alternative because your network blocks P2P including torrents or you have limited upload bandwidth, can't get more and can't pay for a seed box, use modelscope, kaggle or civitai