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Hugging Face scraps GitHub repositories without prior consent (huggingface.co)
submitted 3 weeks ago by pylapp@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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Hugging Face crawls as many GitHub repositories as it can with the help of the Software Heritage Archive so as to create their Stack v2 LLM for code. And of course without consent of rights holders.

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[-] misk@piefed.social 43 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

My code was scraped according to this website but let’s not kid ourselves that any kind of opt-out will prevent this. Any corpo knows that you can outsource all of your shady dealings to a couple of layers of third party vendors and pretend you didn’t know any better. It’s safe to assume that if you use an LLM that you didn’t train yourself you’re violating copyleft of some GPL project.

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