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Firm that lets you rent out your idle Mac for AI inference workloads warns of plummeting token costs — Darkbloom network sees earnings drop to $1.23 a day as Anthropic tokens fall 77%. (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 7 points 1 week ago* (5 children)

I really like the idea of home users renting out compute.

(But I don't like that only being specialized scam-connected compute.)

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  • [–] 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    If you like distributed compute that isn't running a scam, you should check out https://boinc.berkeley.edu/

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Also folding at home. I basically figure you're donating your power consumption costs to science. I don't know that there will ever be a way to make that profitable to the user renting their computer, considering power costs.

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