• Cethin@lemmy.zip
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    3 hours ago

    First, I have AMD hardware that runs them fine. Second, you aren’t paying a subscription. They don’t care if you already purchased their product. That doesn’t make them additional money. They want a subscription, which is recurring revenue.

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      3 hours ago

      Well done you, so am I as it happens, but that doesnt change that the vast majority of LLMs are running on Nvidia cards so they still would be suppressing demand for their own product. talking about subscription fees is just nonsensical here, hugging face is a mirror to host other people’s weights, if they started charging people to just download (as opposed to running models, which they already seem to have a decent business for) people would like choose to host their weights elsewhere.