Decentralised inference on a network of macbooks

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Summary

The article introduces darkbloom, a project enabling decentralized AI inference on MacBooks for passive income, with the author's initial testing and thoughts on its viability and security.

There's a new project called darkbloom (I am NOT affiliated to it) where you can connect your macbook to a network and basically power inference via it.. You could earn around $200-$500/month on macbook depending on how long it runs, how efficiently, etc. Intuitively, this feels like something that should work / exist and has the economics that a decentralised economy provides, given it's orchestrated the right way.. Obviously security is a big factor.. I got to know about it via a well respected startup founder on twitter and also their network's code is public on github - that's what they said - i saw the repo but didn't really verify, etc. I did try to run it - was really easy to get my laptop on the network (macbook m1 pro 32gb ram, 512gb disk) - took 5 minutes, fairly easy.. unfortunately after I downloaded the models my disk had 3gb left so deleted them later but seemed to work.. I also read some tweeet about real/known people putting like 5-6 idle mac pros on it, etc. What do you guys think about this?
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