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Huggingface have scraped the entirety of Github. (huggingface.co)
submitted 1 day ago by e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de to c/programming@programming.dev
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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 149 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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 103 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 day ago

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

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 day 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.

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 day ago

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

[–] JakenVeina@midwest.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev -1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

don’t steal the repositories

How is this remotely stealing?

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 0 points 1 day ago

but it may be violation of licenses

They excluded code with non-permissive licenses apparently:

Each file is labelled permissive (at least one permissive license detected, no conflicting non-permissive license), no_license (no licenses detected, or only non-license legal texts such as CLAs), or non_permissive. The permissive allowlist follows the Blue Oak Council list plus licenses categorized as Permissive or Public Domain by ScanCode. Files classified as non_permissive are excluded from both released datasets.

also, if it has personal information on it, that’s probably illegal under the GDPR.

It's all public so I would be extremely surprised if that were the case.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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?

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 day ago

not for private for profit use from shitty ai companies though.....