Please correct me if I’m wrong, but currently volunteers hosting torrents give away bandwidth and storage for free in exchange for a community doing the same.
When I say “torrent-ize” LLM inference, I mean the same, give away compute/tokens for free. Maybe there will be some way to monetize it, but that defeats the purpose.
I don’t see corporations touching the network it because of legal and data privacy issues, but startups might exploit it for free compute.
Also a conspiracy theory: Anthropic is about to rug pull the consumer Claude in interest of enterprise contracts. They are at an inflection point where corporates are ready to pay ridiculous amounts of money for “buying intelligence”, leaving the public dry after using up the entire internet’s data without permission. I don’t know why someone would do give away compute for free, but people still do it regardless. maybe just as an F U to closed source models or whatever.