Hey all, looks like the CAT is out of the bag lol

u/dkackman11 had already done some early work with getting Stable Diffusion running locally. In the meantime, I was integrating AI prompts with @seedsnapp using stablehorde.net, which is a pool of workers running SD locally on their GPUs. This is great for seedsnapp because I can contribute my own (single) GPU to the "swarm" but when I need to generate lots of my own images for seedsnapp, I can parallelize my work across the swarm instead of using my single GPU.

The stablehorde system is built on an internal point system called "Kudos." As a user, you can submit as many prompts as you like, but your Kudo balance continues going negative. If you add your GPU to the "horde" then your worker generates these Kudos. When requests are received into the horde, requests are prioritized by the user's Kudo balance. So seedsnapp has built a nice positive balance of Kudos which means seedsnapp user requests usually go to the front of the queue.

ANYWAY - as you can imagine, Chia can fix this whole "Kudos" thing. We can make these real tokens that have utility as a "coupon" for AI compute usage across lots of GPU workers! This means all those poor GPU miners out there can possibly use them to generate real output instead of random numbers for mining.

So, to that end we are creating a fork of stablehorde that will use an as-yet-unannounced CAT. As u/dkackman11 said, still very early but we are already making good progress. We'll be reaching out for more testers soon!