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Huggingface have scraped the entirety of Github. (huggingface.co)
submitted 3 days 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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[–] Swuden@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

They’re not able to scrape private repos, surely?

[–] okamiueru@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Microsoft has access, and everything is for sale. So, maybe? Probably? 🤷

[–] ksh@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago

Embrace extend extinguish

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

No, it seems to only be a subset of public repo's.
I have like 65 repo's and only 13 were scraped. I don't get why they specifically scraped those though. They don't have the most stars, they aren't the oldest or newest, not the ones with the most forks, nor do I see a pattern based on programming language.