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PSA Huggingface is scraping GitHub (lemmy.world)

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https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceCode/in-the-stack

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Okay, I see you, I think I may have misunderstood how you were phrasing it. Thinking you were saying they were scanning all of GitHub because it's all permissive.

[–] TeaWithDani@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We'll they said they only scanned stuff that would have allowed them implicitly, now did they really respect that? Their ''stack'' is public, so people can review it. It's opensource, people can audit it at least.

The big giants can lift whatever they want from Github and we wouldn't have the means to prove it. I'm sure Microsoft is using private repos as they like. It's not a coincidence that Copilot was one of the earlier coding LLMs.