There are already ways to get around this. For example, renting compute from people who aren't in datacenters. Which is already a thing: https://vast.ai. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

By "SETI" I assume you mean the SETI@Home distributed computing project. There's a two-way market where you can rent out your GPU here: https://vast.ai/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

- https://vast.ai/ (linked by gchadwick above). - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

Have you considered running on a cloud machine instead? You can rent machines on https://vast.ai/ for under $1 an hour that should work for small/medium models (I've mostly been playing with stable diffusion so I don't know what you'd need for an LLM off hand). Good GPUs and Apple hardware is pricey. Get a bit of automation setup with some cloud storage (e.g backblaze B2) and you can have a machine ready to run... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

I have heard vast.ai is cheap but I haven't tried it out. https://websiteinvesting.com/reviews/vast-ai-review/. Source: 7 months ago

Their name was similar to a legit processing company (paymentspring.com) , and I tried to contact the legit company, thinking maybe I could leverage their legal team. I made a few attempts, emails, phone calls, it didn't seem like it stuck. People weren't sure where to direct my request. That company has recently changed the name of their processing service, so that tactic is probably out the window now. I can't... Source: over 1 year ago