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Would be a terrible shame if lots of people opted out.

If you are a EU citizen you might also want to write a complaint to privacy@huggingface.co because they are collecting your personally identifiable information in machine-readable form which they are distributing to third parties.

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[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 161 points 3 days ago

We want to give developers agency over their source code by letting them decide whether or not it should be used to develop and evaluate machine learning models.

fuck them seriously; if you want to do that then don't steal the repositories in the first place.

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 109 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 33 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 days ago

not surprising since the venn diagram of ai bros and rapists is a circle.

[-] lps2@lemmy.ml 38 points 3 days ago

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

[-] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 days ago

I just opted out of all my repos except the God awful ones from middle and highschool. Those are basically prompt poison so fuckem

[-] MrLLM@ani.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They cloned a few projects I’ve made that rely heavily on a library I also made, I’m only pulling out the library.

[-] trevor 26 points 3 days ago

Modern tech companies love using the rapsist's model of consent.

[-] JakenVeina@midwest.social 6 points 3 days ago

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.

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