Dev urges hoarding local models on hard drives ahead of possible compute regulation
Promptmethus · x · 2026-09-16
Developer Zodomo warns that a "cyberpunk dystopia" is coming for local models: personal compute may not be trusted and your own devices could get regulated. His advice: grab a hard drive and stuff it with every new local model release, even ones you can't run — "put the AI under the floorboards." A sentiment piece reflecting open-source community anxiety over end-side regulation.
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