Honestly whoever designs how to plumb all the local/edge inference together for a proof of work “token” to exchange for use of that inference or sale is gonna be the crypto that’s actually useful lmfao
I understand why big ai wants to control the compute but that’s gotta be on the foss radar right?
Kinda the opposite. Openrouter exist and you can host any model, but even within the model there are bunch of params that affect how good is the output you get.
And while most hosts list these upfront, & you just gotta be smart enough to request with specific requirements, I’ve heard there are still good reasons to just stick to a list of trusted hosts sometimes, I don’t really remember what was the issue, quantinizastion level that they aren’t honest upfront maybe.
Honestly whoever designs how to plumb all the local/edge inference together for a proof of work “token” to exchange for use of that inference or sale is gonna be the crypto that’s actually useful lmfao
I understand why big ai wants to control the compute but that’s gotta be on the foss radar right?
Is it cheap for peers on the network to verify that the work has been performed?
Kinda the opposite. Openrouter exist and you can host any model, but even within the model there are bunch of params that affect how good is the output you get.
And while most hosts list these upfront, & you just gotta be smart enough to request with specific requirements, I’ve heard there are still good reasons to just stick to a list of trusted hosts sometimes, I don’t really remember what was the issue, quantinizastion level that they aren’t honest upfront maybe.
Mesh LLM? SETI but for tokens. I can half see it.
Most of the value in openai now isn’t the model, it’s the prompts and process. That’s where FOSS could shine.
I could see having a ratio like with torrents
But this requires a beefy GPU. It’s more like crypto because the average user won’t be able to mine cost effectively.