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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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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 1 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

don’t steal the repositories

How is this remotely stealing?

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 15 points 15 hours 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 14 hours 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 14 hours 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.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 3 points 14 hours ago (2 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?

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, but I used it under the licence terms of the original developer.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev -3 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

So have they. They filter by license - see my other comment.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

It doesn't seem that way. My list contains several repositories that don't have licenses, even some with GPL.

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

so if you are licenced under MIT and they use your code, they publish your copyright header?

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev -1 points 5 hours ago

Yes. If they train AI from your code? No, but the legality of that is yet to be settled and definitely leaning towards "it's fine".

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 14 hours ago

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