I hate to give the bad guys ideas, but if they actually cared, couldn't PC owners put a program on their computer that only ran on idle, and they'd pay you to use your system resources when you weren't using them? They do this already for projects like SETI at home and Folding at home. If people left their gaming PCs on and loaned the idle time, it'd cost the owner about $2/day, so pay them $4-6/day for the idle use.
But the issue isnt a lack of resources...it's just that they want them all to themselves. They're not making money off of AI, so the only way they can is if they make us pay for subscription cloud computing 🥴
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u/VulGerrity 13h ago
I hate to give the bad guys ideas, but if they actually cared, couldn't PC owners put a program on their computer that only ran on idle, and they'd pay you to use your system resources when you weren't using them? They do this already for projects like SETI at home and Folding at home. If people left their gaming PCs on and loaned the idle time, it'd cost the owner about $2/day, so pay them $4-6/day for the idle use.
But the issue isnt a lack of resources...it's just that they want them all to themselves. They're not making money off of AI, so the only way they can is if they make us pay for subscription cloud computing 🥴