I did a prototype implementation of a “network of ML networks” - an internet-like protocol for federated learning where nodes can discover, join, and migrate between different learning groups based on performance metrics (Repo: https://github.com/bluebbberry/MyceliumNetServer). It’s build on Flower AI.

Want do you think of this? It could be used to build a Napster/BitTorrent-like app on this to collaboratively train and share arbitrary machine learning models with other people while keeping data private and only sharing gradients instead of whole models to save bandwidth. Would this be a good counter-weight for big AI companies or actually make things worse?

Would love to hear your opinion ;)

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    6 days ago

    Since downloading copyright material is legal for training apparently, I’d be glad to help train a privacy respecting distributed LLM. 😉

    /s of course. But you have a very interesting idea!

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      5 days ago

      Btw, would it be legal to use a torrent client that uses an LLM to make up the outgoing packets so that you aren’t sending copyrighted material? ;)