Comment by casey2

2 hours ago

Some resell group is going to have to make this easier. The shear amount of these cards otherwise heading towards the landfill is staggering. That is if Big Tech don't destroy them to prevent model weights from leaking.

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Gracana  1 hour ago

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eric__cartman  2 hours ago

How would destroying the GPUs prevent the model weights from leaking? By the time you get your hands on them the memory is powered off for a long enough time that a cold-boot style attack is impossible.

  • sethops1  1 hour ago

    Would you bet your trillion dollar company on that? Or would you smash up the garbage [to you] memory chips to be sure.

Alifatisk  1 hour ago

> The shear amount of these cards otherwise heading towards the landfill is staggering.

The thought of throwing away working cards sounds so bizarre to me. I can't believe companies would dispose them into the landfill like that, it is at least worth giving away for refuse.

  • wookmaster  1 hour ago

    There’s a long history of corporations doing evil things to ensure their business model succeeds