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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.
- Indeed. I suppose it's a good idea in theory and should be helpful though
- Yep, there's no "intelligence" involved at all. Just data and statistical computation.
  
  And moreover DHT search engines already exist.
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.
It may be useful for something like ed2k too, to fight poisoning (remember all those horse porn files instead of what you were looking for, except for cases where you were looking for horse porn but found Star Wars).

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