Pirate Face's model weight "preservation" is just webseed redirects to Hugging Face's CDN

realmrfakename · x · 2026-10-25

User realmrfakename called out Pirate Face, a project gaining attention for "preserving" model weights via torrents:

• Many of its torrents are unseeded with zero seeders
• The torrents stay "alive" only through webseeds — HTTP URLs that torrent clients fall back to when no seeders exist
• Pirate Face's webseed API merely redirects to Hugging Face's CDN, meaning the project doesn't host anything itself; its "preservation" is just links pointing at HF
• The author argues this is deceptive and that real preservation requires local archiving

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