Pirate Face turns open models into torrents so they can't be deleted

Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion

Pirate Face mirrors open models from Hugging Face as magnet links and distributes them via P2P swarms. Every file carries the official Hugging Face SHA-256 hash, so you can verify the weights haven't been tampered with. Over 669k models are already synced, including DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Qwen3.8-27B. If the original source goes down, the swarm keeps the model alive as long as peers are seeding. A drop-in Hugging Face-compatible API endpoint is planned. The post doesn't spell out seeder incentives or long-term hosting costs.