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Hugging Face scrapes Bluesky, surprised when Bluesky users object (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[–] self@awful.systems 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

to be honest, they give me a lot of mtgox vibes:

  • extremely stupid name
  • technically predates the worst excesses of the AI bubble
  • very eager to enable the worst excesses of the AI bubble
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

they also went full DARVO complaining how mean everyone had been to them over them abusing personal data and then telling us we needed to get with the program

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

It's also the place where you go to to download models to use by yourself instead of sending all your data to the most unscrupulous people possible, so at least they've got that going for them.