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Posted by twapi 1 day ago

Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs(darkbloom.dev)
475 points | 235 commentspage 5
v9v 21 hours ago|
They could consider registering as a provider on something like OpenRouter if they aren't getting enough inference requests on their own site.
smooth968 15 hours ago|
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puttycat 20 hours ago||
> Every request is end-to-end encrypted

Afaik you will need to decrypt the data the moment it needs to be fed into the model.

How do they do this then?

mr_mitm 19 hours ago|
The system hosting the model must be one of the ends.

Remember, all encryption is E2EE if you're not picky about the ends.

dangoodmanUT 16 hours ago||
This feels like defi... de-ai
ponyous 17 hours ago||
Why does M1 Max project significantly higher revenue than M3 Max with double the ram?
ripped_britches 17 hours ago||
How does the inference work correctly if the payloads are encrypted?
throwatdem12311 15 hours ago||
Actually more useful than Bitcoin. Brilliant idea.
koliber 1 day ago||
Apple should build this, and start giving away free Macs subsidized by idle usage.
chaoz_ 1 day ago||
That solution actually makes great sense. So Apple won in some strange way again?

Guess there are limitations on size of the models, but if top-tier models will getting democratized I don’t see a reason not to use this API. The only thing that comes to me is data privacy concerns.

I think batch-evals for non-sensitive data has great PMF here.

59nadir 23 hours ago||
> So Apple won in some strange way again?

Heh, what did they win exactly? This is just a way for another company to extract value out of the single region of the world where Apple is a relevant vendor, and it happens to be the one where it's the easiest to pull people into schemes.

rvz 1 day ago||
Yes. They never needed to participate in the AI race to zero.

Because they were already at the finish line with Apple Silicon.

> I don’t see a reason not to use this API. The only thing that comes to me is data privacy concerns.

The whole inference is end-to-end encrypted so none of the nodes can see the prompts or the messages.

chaoz_ 1 day ago||
Fun question: can some (part of it) be a crypto token that I can buy? :))

That would finally be a crypto thing which is backed by value I believe in.

resonanormal 1 day ago||
I could imagine this working for the openclaw community if the price is right
Havoc 18 hours ago|
That was my first thought too especially for talks that aren’t particularly important like daily digests of online things
bentt 1 day ago|
I thought this was Apple’s plan all along. How is this not already their thing?
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