Why Every AI Model Will Ship as a Torrent

ahoyychips 20 points 4 comments November 03, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)

Grimblewald

Cool article but i really hope we fix llm prose in some near future. How chatbots write is so grating.

octoberfranklin

For fucks sake change the name of your website. Are you trying to alienate all legitimate business?

drum55

This service is all sorts of weird, it feels like some sort of growth hacking thing made by someone who hasn't actually used bittorrent before, and the entirely LLM generated blog posts aren't helping. Torrents are absolutely a good way of distributing weights, but it feels like this exists entirely to suck the good will out of doing so. There doesn't need to be a weird user system, their own tracker, the goofy branding, it could have been a 1:1 tool which just made torrents of every model release and left it at that. That they distribute their own tool for downloading the torrents is especially weird, it's probably fine but also, why? I can't work out why this is using v1 torrents either, it's such a good use of v2 torrents.

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