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What is Pirate Face? A decentralized, peer-to-peer layer for sovereign AI. Open models from Hugging Face become checksum-verified torrents, held by a global swarm so they survive any single host taking them down. The goal is permanence for open-source AI.
Do I need an account to use Pirate Face? No. You can browse, download, and seed without an account. Claiming is optional. A public claim reserves your Pirate Face handle and helps the network spread. Only your first eligible handle earns welcome points.
A public claim reserves your Pirate Face handle and helps the network spread. Only your first eligible handle earns welcome points. Hugging Face creator claims require verification. To receive the Verified creator badge for a current Hugging Face username or organization, you must verify the matching Hugging Face account. Until then, the handle is only reserved and does not prove identity.
To receive the badge for a current Hugging Face username or organization, you must verify the matching Hugging Face account. Until then, the handle is only reserved and does not prove identity. Direct publishing is planned. Accounts will eventually support publishing and managing models directly on Pirate Face, without first uploading them to Hugging Face. That is not live yet. Today, submitting a model requires a Hugging Face account and the model must already be on Hugging Face. Accounts also support upcoming community benefits. See account benefits.
Why create a Pirate Face account? An account gives you a place to manage your claimed handles and track your contributions. Claiming reserves a public handle; verifying the matching Hugging Face identity adds the creator badge and helps prevent impersonation. Pirate Face is preparing community benefits for account holders, including free compute credits and exclusive model releases. You can browse, download and seed without an account.
Why use Hugging Face verification if the goal is independence from centralized hosting? Hugging Face verification confirms that someone claiming a creator’s handle controls the matching HF account or organization. It helps prevent impersonation and preserves attribution as models spread beyond their original host. You don’t need verification, or an account, to browse, download or seed. Pirate Face’s short-term goal is for model availability to outlive any single hosting platform. Today, parts of Pirate Face depend on Hugging Face and its community. Pirate Face is working to allow direct model publishing soon, without first uploading to HF.
Does my Pirate Face handle have to match my Hugging Face username? No. You can reserve an available name, but the verified badge requires a matching Hugging Face identity. For example, a Hugging Face account named john123 can verify john123, not john. You can still reserve john, but it stays unverified. The matching Hugging Face owner could reclaim that handle without deleting your Pirate Face account. Manage your connected accounts and reserved handles in Account.
Could someone impersonate a creator here? Both are protected: The weights can't be faked - every file is checksum-verified against Hugging Face's official SHA-256.
can't be faked - every file is checksum-verified against Hugging Face's official SHA-256. The handle - anyone can reserve a name (it shows reserved, no Verified creator ), but only proving the matching Hugging Face identity earns the Verified creator . A squatter can't lock you out: the real owner reclaims a reserved name by verifying.
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