By "SETI" I assume you mean the SETI@Home distributed computing project. There's a two-way market where you can rent out your GPU here: https://vast.ai/ https:

By "SETI" I assume you mean the SETI@Home distributed computing project. There's a two-way market where you can rent out your GPU here: https://vast.ai/ https://vast.ai/ If you want to donate your GPU you could set your price to $0.00 I guess. Yandex and Hugging Face trained a couple nets using distributed GPUs. Their lessons learned paper is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10207 https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10207 Takeaway: using consumer GPUs on the other end of consumer internet connections means you end up very I/O limited. 50 megabit upload on a cable modem doesn't compare well with 50000 megabit NVswitch links in a proper GPU cluster. As far as I can tell they are no longer doing distributed training. And it's widely assumed the big nets are trained on copyrighted material through libgen and scihub. So if your question is "is there an open source net that's trained on pirated books" the answer is "Yes, and it's called Llama/Mistral/Falcon etc etc"