Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
Summary
Pirate Face promotes a decentralized, peer-to-peer layer for hosting AI models as checksum-verified torrents to resist takedowns and single points of failure. The project outlines verification of Hugging Face identities, a claims and rewards ecosystem, and future direct publishing with a drop-in API. It emphasizes permanence and provenance for open models, with a focus on governance and community benefits.