Like the issue with modern AI is the data centers and central control no? How feasible would an AI be, whose code is FOSS and that is trained and running decentralized?
There were plenty of open weights LLMs, image, audio, or video generators that you can run locally on a decent NVIDIA GPU, if that’s what you mean. Try the !localllama@sh.itjust.works community
no i mean more like a public service, but instead of one centralized power with massive datacenters, it is a distributed zraining and computation. like reddit vs. lemmy for example.
Oh I think I did hear of something like that. Search the AI horde
Already done. See:
Open training: https://huggingface.co/collections/allenai/olmo-3
Decentralized training: https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Hermes-4.3-36B
Decentralized inference: https://aihorde.net/
They aren’t the only example of each, either.
The issue, as with many decentralized projects, is that they’re isolated from each other, and too few know about them.
It’s a capitalist world. Economies of scale will always tip the balance toward centralization, in the hands of billionaires.
Plausibly feasible, but there would be more people using the service than letting the service borrow their hardware for processing or memory. I imagine it would work like a botnet, where if a user generates a prompt, their machine would borrow other nearby machines to process the command efficiently. So, in order to make it a fair service, perhaps the software does a POST and only operates if you meet a minimum hardware specification, and a stable internet connection.