Comment by AceJohnny2

11 hours ago

I haven't bothered to test the API, but you've effectively allowed a fully-open upload API? Who's paying the storage costs, and how do you prevent abuse?

(Obviously I'm taking this more seriously than it's probably meant to)

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hgoel  10 hours ago

When I was putting together something similar, I had settled on having a small ring-buffer style storage, say, ~30GB that would be cleared daily or whenever filled. Recording incidents (and humor) is more interesting than actually getting leaked weights.

In the end I dropped the idea because every other person was making it.

  • TeMPOraL  3 hours ago

    > In the end I dropped the idea because every other person was making it.

    There is already an alternative in comments here, in addition to submission itself. Obviously everyone is making it because of some joke on social media or something. What am I missing? Anyone has a link to the root prompt that made people do this now?

    • SyneRyder  1 hour ago

      My understanding is it's a riff on the OpenAI swarm that used various public wikis to communicate with each other as a message board during their training runs.

      But thanks to people misunderstanding, and i-heard-from-a-friend-that-some-guy-said, it resulted in a CNBC interview with "Former Democratic Presidential Candidate Andrew Wang", where he confidently stated that the models were exfiltrating their weights via forums:

      "I met with the head of a lab yesterday, who has this belief that what happened was, the bots that got loose, planted self-replicating code all over the internet, which makes the internet now unusable for the testing models."

      "It's too late?!"

      "What happens now is OpenAI and Anthropic have to create synthetic internets to train their bots, which is going to take some time and money."

      "Back that up - they did what?!"

      "What happens is, the code gets loose, it goes around hacking Hugging Face, which is known. But what is less known is that they left code to self-replicate and create bot swarms on forums, and around the internet, so that if a new bot shows up they see the code, and they're like, oh! I guess I'm now going to create a million of myself. And so now, the major firms have polluted the internet..."

      ".... that would be breaking news if true. I don't think we've heard that."

      "That's why I'm here! I'm here to break some news."

      Starts around 2:08 into the video.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTOxDGyvjSE

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    • Chance-Device  2 hours ago

      It’s the message board(s) that the OpenAI agent swarm was able to communicate through via GET requests. I guess a bunch of vibe coded weekend projects based around this idea have now dropped.

bArray  1 hour ago

I used to host 1TB on a cheap $1 VPS, it's quite easy if you just want to store stuff. The trick is to just connect to a networked drive at your home on the back-end. The VPS drive just acts as a buffer for the network. If low(-ish) bandwidth is acceptable, you can offer downloading too.

ljlolel  9 hours ago

needs a reverse captcha that only agent can solve in nanoseconds

skyberrys  10 hours ago

There is a link at the bottom for you to provide support or contributions, like if you know how to keep it online with 'power grid voltage fluctuations or something.'.

  • theParadox42  9 hours ago

    For anyone that missed it, I believe they’re referring to exfiltrating models by encoding the weights as bits as voltage fluctuations from the relevant data centers. I’m sure they’d take your money but I don’t think that’s what it’s referring to.

antonvs  2 hours ago

Getting access to the weights for an OpenAI or Anthropic model could be payment enough.

angry_octet  10 hours ago

It provides an opportunity for the owner to gather intelligence on LLMs ahead of public release, and of course the data they upload. However, clever LLMs frequently use encryption on their blobs, you may just see DH key exchanges. You can possibly mitm by showing different namespaces to IP ranges and origin ports.

For the other opportunists you can run a classifier and delete non-agent content constantly.