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HuggingSocial is a peer-to-peer place to find, discuss and download open AI models and datasets. It is a model hub that no company owns: the list of models, the model cards, the comments and the votes all live on a peer-to-peer network, and the model files themselves are fetched over BitTorrent (or plain HTTP mirrors), verified on your machine with checksums.

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[–] antianarchist@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

Anybody could make a website with blind claims in 10min. Why the fuck does this even get posted here?

[–] DeckPacker@piefed.social 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don‘t get the kill computers angle given this is digital art.

[–] blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

pmvj made it.

His shtick is being an ambiguous poster, in a good way.

[–] DeckPacker@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, it's kinda silly. As things should be.

[–] inari@piefed.zip 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If HuggingFace does enshittify, my guess is ModelScope will be the one that takes over, since it's Chinese and open weights models are dominated by the Chinese

[–] artyom@piefed.social 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What do you mean "if"? You think Nvidia is paying $12B for it out of the kindness of their hearts?

[–] inari@piefed.zip 11 points 1 day ago

You're right

Chinese will enshittify it too and it will be a duopoly

[–] Sims@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Cool ! Signed up, but worried about future enshittification: "Monetization scheme for publishers. Model authors will be able to receive financial support from people who would like to donate to them. "

It needs to be an optional secondary layer/addon, so it can't enshittify the whole eco-system. 'Monetization' IS enshittification and will only get worse: popups, ads, fake accounts/recommendation, and all the other std scams will follow if a humble wish to support creators, becomes intrinsic monetization of the ecosystem !

[–] Lookingforfreedom@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Listings carry the author's own sponsor links (GitHub Sponsors, Ko-fi, paypal, crypto addresses…). The platform will not take a cut of any payments

[–] Sims@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Beautyful !

[–] Sims@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Deleted. Wrong sub/thread..

[–] Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Hugging Face, Inc., is an American company based in New York City that develops computation tools for building applications using machine learning. Hugging Face's transformers library is built for natural language processing applications. The Hugging Face platform allows users to share machine learning models and datasets and showcase their work.[3]

In early 2026, hackers hijacked the Hugging Face platform to launch Android-targeted attacks involving "powerful malware" which could completely take over a compromised target.[20]

In July 2026, Hugging Face disclosed a cyberattack by autonomous AI agents. OpenAI then explained that two of its models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, had escaped their sandbox and hacked into Hugging Face servers using exposed credentials and zero-day vulnerabilities in order to find answers to the benchmark ExploitGym from a database.[21] Hugging Face attempted to mitigate the security breach using American proprietary frontier models, but the models' AI safety features rejected Hugging Face's requests, after which Hugging Face used a self-hosted instance of GLM-5.2 (an open-weights model developed by Chinese AI firm Z.ai) to contain the attack.[22][23][24] The incident was reported as the first publicly documented case of AI models autonomously conducting a multi-stage intrusion against a third party,[25][26] and has been called "the first true AI safety incident".[27]

(Copied from the wikipedia article) fuck these AI-Bros!

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Very cool, but repo looks a bit light. Posting about it a few days after creation makes me nervous

Also, I thought about doing something like this but couldn't get past what I see as the obvious CSAM models that would be posted. I'd like to see what your thoughts are around that, to help prevent large booted gov agents from booting down the doors

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As long as you have active moderation to remove stuff like that, and cooperate with investigations, you'll be fine. Pornhub is still up because when they came under the microscope, they purged anything that wasn't verifiably legal. Plenty of other sites have shut down because they didn't.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How do you in a completely decentralized system? If everyone hosts their own then there is no moderation

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You moderate whatever you host. Even if you have your own instance, your web host, DNS host, or ISP can still cut you off.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But that's my point, this isn't like the fediverse, this is true peer to peer, which means one person hosts everyone would theoretically see it, which means everyone would have to see the inevitable horrific shit and prune it themselves.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Sure, if it used something like Gnutella. But then you'd only see what you searched for, and download what you choose.