Unethical uses are legitimate.

It's your computer. It should do what it's told.

If "unethical" means "things Nvidia doesn't want you to do", then yes.

the trend is currently that oen weight models are going proprietary as they are trying to find methods of making money, so capturing what exists of them might make the last one before they go closed still feasible to retrieve.

unethical things

You mean like anything that goes against pro-corprate neoliberal values? It should be. We should fight to preserve models like that the same way we fight to have spaces to stay that stuff ourselves.

Because both major GPU manufacturers are controlled by the same family. The primary model repo is controlled by that same family now. Both major pipelines are controlled by that same family. ONNX and the diffusion pipelines are maintained by Microsoft. The alternatives are controlled by hyperscalers (with the exception of civitai I guess). All frontier model pipelines are directly controlled by a single family in China. So its very much possible that you could be banned from accessing them yes. We really don't need a pirate instance we just need AN instance at this point.

It's because Nvidia bought huggingface, and everyone expects them to start deleting anything unprofitable, not just potentially objectionable.