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Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
Open models - LLMs, image, audio, datasets - as 🧲 magnet links that can never be taken down. No single owner or point of failure.
Trending Apache-2.0 & MIT models, synced live from Hugging Face - each becoming a checksum-verified torrent.
Pirate Face is decentralized infrastructure for sovereign AI. Every open model is mirrored from Hugging Face as a torrent, held peer-to-peer instead of by a single company.
Every model is a torrent that also downloads straight from Hugging Face. The day it's gone, the swarm keeps it alive - there's no single host to shut down.
Every file carries its official Hugging Face SHA-256 - so you verify every byte. Download it anywhere and the hash still has to match: the real weights, never a tampered copy.
Point your existing pipeline at Pirate Face - same paths, same API, just a different endpoint. Zero code changes.
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A decentralized, peer-to-peer layer for sovereign AI. Open models from Hugging Face become checksum-verified torrents, held by a global swarm so they survive any single host taking them down. The goal is permanence for open-source AI.