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Hugging Face scrapes Bluesky, surprised when Bluesky users object (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 6 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The company was named after the U+1F917 🤗 HUGGING FACE emoji.

HF is more of a platform for publishing this sort of thing, as well as the neural networks themselves and a specialized cloud service to train and deploy them, I think. They are not primarily a tool vendor, and they were around well before the LLM hype cycle.

[–] self@awful.systems 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

to be honest, they give me a lot of mtgox vibes:

extremely stupid name
technically predates the worst excesses of the AI bubble
very eager to enable the worst excesses of the AI bubble

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 6 days ago

they also went full DARVO complaining how mean everyone had been to them over them abusing personal data and then telling us we needed to get with the program

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago

It's also the place where you go to to download models to use by yourself instead of sending all your data to the most unscrupulous people possible, so at least they've got that going for them.