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0 pointsNiloCK2mo ago0 comments

On the latency point - your requests are still going through the coordinator of the system here. So on average strictly worse than a large provider.

You - Darkbloom - Operator - Darkbloom - you, vs

You - Provider - you

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On the censorship point - this is an interesting risk surface for operators. If people are drawn my decentralized model provisioning for its lax censorship, I'm pretty sure they're using it to generate things that I don't want to be liable for.

If anything, I could imagine dumber and stricter brand-safety style censorship on operator machines.

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znnajdla2mo ago

I'm not talking about Darkbloom specifically, but rather this business model in general. I'm sure a future version of Darkbloom could be P2P for better latency. Or their central operator nodes could be geo-balanced. Liability for censorship doesn't matter if it's truly zero trust. Anyway censorship is not my main concern. Low-latency decentralized inference with no US BigTech dependency is a much bigger selling point in Europe.

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