[frankfrank13]

This is one of those ideas I think makes perfect sense, but requires so much operational change for the entire stack, that it would be very difficult to scale:

- Convincing labs to run distributed, burst-y inference

- Convincing people to run their Mac all day, hoping to make a little profit

- Convincing users to trust a distributed network of un-trusted devices

I had a similar idea, pre-AI, just for compute in general. But solving even 1 of those 3 (swap AI lab for managed-compute-type-company, eg Supabase, Vercel) is nearly impossible.

[afcool83]

...or convincing operators that jobs sent to their machines are legal, legitimate, and non-nefarious.

I could not find disclosure on their site about the guard-railing or safety-systems at the point the prompt is gathered from users which would intercept, log & prevent bad actors from inadvertently involving me in something illegal or immoral as an operator. Perhaps that disclosure exists and I just need to be linked to it; that would be welcome.