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fuck them seriously; if you want to do that then don't steal the repositories in the first place.
Meanwhile at work we just had a training course that specifically said doing “opt out” instead of “opt in” violates the principle of informed consent.
Notice how a shit load of these people keep turning up to be rapists and pedophiles… They have no shits to give about informed consent. In their mind you don’t even have the right to the same agency they do.
not surprising since the venn diagram of ai bros and rapists is a circle.
Kinda hope it uses my code. It's so terrible there's no doubt it will make the resulting code from the model worse even if the impact is miniscule
I just opted out of all my repos except the God awful ones from middle and highschool. Those are basically prompt poison so fuckem
They cloned a few projects I’ve made that rely heavily on a library I also made, I’m only pulling out the library.
Modern tech companies love using the rapsist's model of consent.
Unless I'm mistaken, this wasn't written by the folks that scaped GitHub in the first place, someone just wrote a small tool to semi-automate the process of searching the scraped dats, and submitting a GitHub issue to have it removed.
it's pretty clear from the language of the site, the fact that it's on the hugging face domain, and the fact that the github organisation for the "opt out" makes it clear it's hugging face.
How is this remotely stealing?
It's not, but it may be violation of licenses. And also, if it has personal information on it, that's probably illegal under the GDPR.
They excluded code with non-permissive licenses apparently:
It's all public so I would be extremely surprised if that were the case.
the method on github is to fork it not steal all the data in an external storage for external purposes without consent of the user.
edit: you can also report their whole account to github here: https://support.github.com/contact/report-abuse?category=report-abuse&report=bigcode-project&report_id=110470554&report_type=user
I'm pretty sure they just cloned the repos. That's how GitHub is designed to work. Have you never cloned a repo from GitHub?
Yes, but I used it under the licence terms of the original developer.
So have they. They filter by license - see my other comment.
It doesn't seem that way. My list contains several repositories that don't have licenses, even some with GPL.
so if you are licenced under MIT and they use your code, they publish your copyright header?
Yes. If they train AI from your code? No, but the legality of that is yet to be settled and definitely leaning towards "it's fine".
not for private for profit use from shitty ai companies though.....