"Pirateface good, Huggingface bad": users rally behind torrent-mirroring of open models
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-16
In the discussion around Pirate Face — the service that turns Hugging Face open models into permanent magnet-link torrents — user LLMSherpa sums up the mood: "Pirateface good. Huggingface bad," linking to pirateface.co. The site live-mirrors trending Apache-2.0/MIT models as verified torrents; recent entries include DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (765GB), Kimi-Audio-7B-Instruct and numerous abliterated/NSFW models, with users claiming handles on the platform.
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