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0 points0cf8612b2e1e2y ago0 comments

Enormous complaint about this space: people seemingly never think to include checksums. Drives me wild when there is supposedly all of this concern about the right data and provenance, yet it is not easy to even confirm you have the genuine article.

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aseipp2y ago· 2 in thread

The checksums are automatically included with the models when you download them using the download.sh script, and verified right after the download completes. This isn't unlike how a lot of packages distribute the SHA256SUMS file next to their downloads over HTTPS, which you can validate yourself.

That said it would be nice to announce them somewhere else but if you're already downloading them from Meta directly the need for third party verification is much smaller IMO. Torrents will come soon enough anyway.

spdustin2y ago

I suspect the request is to rule out watermarking of the downloads that might suggest watermarking of the model’s outputs.

0cf8612b2e1eOP2y ago

> Torrents will come soon enough anyway.

That’s the moment when I most would want out of band checksums available.

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