Stable Horde

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Horde AI or Stable Horde is a distributed cluster of GPUs. The project describes itself as a "volunteer crowd-sourced distributed cluster of image and text generation workers". This translates as s network of individual GPU users that "lend" their devices and stored large language models. This means that one can generate an image from any device connected to this network, e.g. a phone. While the visible effects are the same as using chatGPT, co-pilot or any other proprietary service, the images in this network are "community" generated. The request is not sent to a server farm or a company, but to a user that is willing to share their GPU power and stored models. Haidra, the non-profit associated with HordeAI, seeks to make AI free, open-source, and collaborative, effectively circumventing the reliance on AI bit-tech players. Projects like Stable Horde/HordeAI offer a glimpse into the possibilities of autonomy in the world of image generation. The GPU used in this project is (intermittently), part of the HordeAI network.

See: GPU: A horde of graphic cards

See: Currencies: GPU as currency

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