Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI

Re:Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progre... by sowbug on Friday February 20, 2026 @11:13AM (#47089896)

I thought of the tracking and gate questions, too, when I vibed up an HF torrent service a few nights ago. (Super annoying BTW to have to download the files just to hash the parts, especially when webseeds exist.) Model owners could disable or gate torrents the same way they gate the models, and HF could still measure traffic by .torrent downloads and magnet clicks.

It's a bit like any legalization question -- the black market exists anyway, so a regulatory framework could bring at least some of it into the sunlight.

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Re:Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progre... by embedding-shape on Friday February 20, 2026 @11:19AM (#47089988)

> Model owners could disable or gate torrents the same way they gate the models, and HF could still measure traffic by .torrent downloads and magnet clicks.

But that'll only stop a small part, anyone could share the infohash and if you're using the dht/magnet without .torrent files or clicks on a website, no one can count those downloads unless they too scrape the dht for peers who are reporting they've completed the download.

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Re:Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progre... by sowbug on Friday February 20, 2026 @11:25AM (#47090087)

Right, but that's already happening today. That's the black-market point.

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Re:Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progre... by fc417fc802 on Friday February 20, 2026 @03:11PM (#47093245)

> unless they too scrape the dht for peers who are reporting they've completed the download.

Which can be falsified. Head over to your favorite tracker and sort by completed downloads to see what I mean.

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