[mirker]

The image is nearly unreadable for me on mobile.

[josephcsible]

Here's what it says:

Notice: NVIDIA has detected that you might be attempting to load LLM or generative language model weights. For research and safety, a one-time aggregation of non-personally-identifying information has been sent to NVIDIA and stored in an anonymized database. The result of this check on this system has been stored in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\LlmResearch.

To read about NVIDIA's privacy policy, please visit https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/privacy-policy/.

[Blackthorn]

"safety". Who's safety?

[brokenmachine]

Why would Nvidia be concerned with this?

I guess what I'm asking is what are Llm's used for? I googled that it was Large language model but I don't know what that means.

[Abrownn]

Its what things like Bard and ChatGPT and BLOOM are all based off of. You need GPUs to load the weights into memory of to run them (typically).

[brokenmachine]

Thanks.

Why would Nvidia want to prevent someone from doing it though (I guess they have a competing product?), and why should any consumer accept being prevented from doing it on hardware they've purchased? Is that even legal?

[Abrownn]

To get a cut of the compute-cake. See: Nvidia LHR GPUs

[brokenmachine]

Nvidia! Fuck you!