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hellobion2 on 19 April 2024
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This is beyond scary and silly at the same time.  Back in the day I was worried about my laptops's etra gpu would be used for crypto mining. 

JEMC said:

Cards below MSRP is always good news. Let them fall some more.

By the way, beware what you do with your GPU, even more when AI is involved...

An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/an-ai-company-has-been-generating-porn-with-gamers-idle-gpu-time-in-exchange-for-fortnite-skins-and-roblox-gift-cards/
If you've got a powerful GPU in your machine, it may seem like a bit of a waste to leave all the computing power sitting in the background, doing relatively little at idle. In which case, Salad, a company that offers game codes, gift cards, and other items in exchange for users GPU resources, might seem like a reasonable way to put your machine to work.

However, by default the software settings opt users into generating adult content. An option exists to "configure workload types manually" which enables users to uncheck the "Adult Content Workloads" option (via 404 media), however this is easily missed in the setup process, which I duly tested for myself to confirm.

In the Salad Discord server, moderators maintain that the adult content workloads option is unchecked by default, and that any Stable Diffusion image generation job is automatically considered adult content. When several users asked whether they would generate less money on Salad with the setting off, it was explained that "There might be times where you earn a little less if we have high demand for certain adult content workloads, but we don't plan to make those companies the core of our business model."



BiON!@