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Researchers Showcase Decentralized AI-Powered Torrent Search Engine

Researchers Showcase Decentralized AI-Powered Torrent Search Engine * TorrentFreak

Personally found this article highly interesting, it's very much worth a read. Have included the full article with images and links in the spoiler below 🌻

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Sounds like it's just an LLM for DHT indexing...
- It is, but I can see a few use cases that could make it useful. Namely, it can look for common scam/virus patterns to filter more effectively and offer better content suggestions. There are also cases to be made for more descriptive indexing and content identification: lots of torrents have particularly bad naming schemes or misspellings that make finding the content somewhat more difficult or involved.
- Yep, there's no "intelligence" involved at all. Just data and statistical computation.
  
  And moreover DHT search engines already exist.
- Indeed. I suppose it's a good idea in theory and should be helpful though
An excellent proof of concept.
No way it could be abused to deanonymize people.
- DHT is an identifying protocol by design, it is how people find you to send/receive data. If your connection to the swarm is anonymized there really isn't a ton the AI is going to be able to do that isn't already happening with traditional methods.

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