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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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[-] qaz@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

The right move is to private all repositories you are uncertain of that you want them to be preserved forever in an AI training set.

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