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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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[–] undefinedTruth@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Second that. After all all my open repositories are all either licenced under GPL or MIT, so complaining would be a kind of hypocritical.

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

GPL is dodgy to be included in training data for AIs that are then used to generate non-openaource code tbh. Even MIT loses the attribution it's supposed to have once laundered through AI...

Speaking as someone that's been into FOSS for a long time, it does piss me off how quickly copyright got thrown under the bus the moment it became inconvenient for people with money.

[–] undefinedTruth@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yes, but what HuggingFace is doing here is the distribution of a data set. And so long the data set itself is open that doesn't conflict with GPL. HuggingFace is not responsible about how others use that data set.

Whether LLMs themselves violate copyright for being trained on MIT or GPL code is an entirely different discussion.