ChatGPT and Anthropic are now under restriction. I think it is logical to think that HuggingFace will be next. Is it time to create Piratebay for models? It is my opinion that only reliable access to LLM is the machine on your desk and the models in your storage. It is more prudent to prepare for environment where internet access can be taken away anytime.
I think this post deserves more engagement. I think some people think it wonât happen. But itâs likely it will to at least some extent, bare minimum we might be gated from downloading new models unless their deemed âsafeâ by the white house or huggingface may be required to do KYC.
I disagree, maybe farm for engagement on X, Reddit, Zhihu, or some other social platform. I hope this space remains the one technical forum on the internet for DGX Spark discussions, and not devolve into another social media forum.
I would like to clarify my intention. Maybe I should be more specific in my original post. I was seeking advice on a strategy for models storage. I think people might have heard of 3-2-1 storage strategy. Due to the model size, some medium like optical storage might not be suitable due to its limitation on per disk storage size. Other options are tapes, hard drive and SSD. The tricky part in my opinion is your selection of remote location storage. Government regulation has become a potential issue. It is my opinion that online sources are no longer trustworthy.
US government gave Anthropic 90 minuets to shutdown Fable. This is give us a reference on how long you might have to react in the future.
Right now my solution is hard drive due to its cost and portability. I have M-DISC but it is just too slow and storage capacity is small.
Why is this cluttering up a DGX Spark forum again? Is this DGX Spark specific? Seems well suited to Stack Overflow.
Iâm downloading to 1 NAS which mirrors to an offsite NAS; good enough for me for now.
Nothing a VPN wonât stop, theyâll probably move operations to another country if it actually gets to that point. I would be surprised if the US government tries anything here because itâs seemingly impossible to actually restrict access to open source models.
I agree today, but Iâll bet within 5 years we have something similar to Chinaâs great firewall, but AI powered⊠to protect us.
Maybe Iâm just not very smart, but to me these restrictions come off as desperation from the companies since theyâre losing tens of billions every year (OpenAI lost around $38.5 BILLION in 2025), have hit the wall hard with scaling, and have no idea how to move forward to something substantially better, let alone something that makes profit.
The CEO of Amazon went to the Trump administration shortly before the Fable 5 decision and told them the models are dangerous because theyâre so powerful. Are we to believe that the CEO of a company thatâs invested tens of billions into Anthropic was doing this to hurt his companyâs investment? Or is it simpler to assume itâs more fakery from a company with a known history of fakery?
I think these companies know the writing is on the wall, the AI bubble will be popping soon, and that they canât release a model that will live up to their hype, so the next best course of action for them is to pretend the models are too powerful to release. Is this not obvious to anyone else? I donât think anyone will care about random open source models, since this incentive doesnât exist for them.
I completely agree. The definition of fable is âa succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphised, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a âmoralâ), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or saying.â which when you think about it sounds a lot like a joke pointed at us consumers. It almost feels like theyâre making fun of us and they know theyâre boned.
What fever dream is this thread ?! Go to Reddit when you want to philosophy about the Gov blocking your local AI đ