alt Hacker NewsNVIDIA probably already figured out that local will be massive part and are preparing to do DRM for AI.
Pay up for license to unlock full capacity, pay up for license to use encrypted models from AI moguls, paid per billion tokens processed or just operations in GPU
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I don't see the case for DRM protected local models on either side.
The consumer has access to free and open models for local use.
The supplier has better control and wider market to serve running the models in data centers.
Only way I can see encrypted models being widespread is if they are bundled as part of a software package (OS/Browser/etc) and not sold as the product.
Or buy Huawei ascend...
It wouldn't work on windows either, if that were the case. It sounds more like it hasn't been properly implemented yet
There is already DRM for AI. check out nvidia’s docs around hosting proprietary models with encrypted weights