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Hugging Face scraps GitHub repositories without prior consent (huggingface.co)
submitted 3 months ago by 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.

Opt-out is possible.

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[–] 35 points 3 months ago

The opt-out procedure is on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'.

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