PSA Huggingface is scraping GitHub
2026-08-01 12:03 UTC
Replies (10)
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@brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2026-08-01 12:20
Also, all this reminds me of drama in the Skyrim and Minecraft modding scenes, when devs publish stuff under Apache or MIT or whatever. Then the devs find out they don’t like what others are doing with their code. Drama ensues. …That’s kinda the deal with permissive licenses. Or posting publicly, like here on Lemmy. People will do things you don’t like with your code or content.
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@charonn0@startrek.website 2026-08-02 00:39
A number of my repos are listed. But the weird part is that it also lists a repo I don't recognize. The repo does actually exist on my github account, but it's marked as "ignored", and the description says it was automatically exported from Google Code. The code seems to be a MacOS shareware file encryption tool called "BitClamp", published circa 2008. No idea how it got on my account.
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@TeaWithDani@lemmy.world 2026-08-01 23:12
In theory, it’s all supposed to be permissively licenced code and the opt out is more than other models give. I saw Starcoder as one of the more ethical models. I thought the underlying principals to be fair at least. I’m interested in this gut hostility to it regardless. Kind of shows how you can’t present LLMs in a positive angle no matter what. They shouldn’t be using anything GPL or similar.
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@onlinepersona@programming.dev 2026-08-02 13:14
Get off of Github if you think this is a problem 🤷 There are alternatives like Forgejo (Codeberg), Gitlab, and Radicle (decentralised).
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@mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2026-08-02 03:47
Genuinely surprised it’s even opt-out. These companies train on Disney DVDs. Permission is not a factor. Training is transformative use, as much for counting letter frequency as for building a chatbot that can sort of code.
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@dextro@feddit.org 2026-08-01 19:08
I don’t see a problem as long as they stick to AGPL when building a product out of it Edit: Oh they also scraped my proprietary code 🧐
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@Bieren@lemmy.today 2026-08-02 18:36
If someone wants to scrap the shitty ass code I have on GitHub, have at it. Talk about poisoning AI
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@the16bitgamer@piefed.ca 2026-08-01 12:32
Looks for my username. Sees my 8 open repositories in there. Sees my poorly coded Uni projects are also in there. Oh lord my code is actively helping making AI worse.
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@alcea@feddit.org 2026-08-02 21:08
Thats why you write your projects now, download all weights locally and never look back. For posterity huggingface is terrible. If you need it. Even codebergs new changes are a disaster in teh making The days of “if its on the internet” are now your own responsibilty. Love how things are being rewritten on the fly now… Even better, lets scrape and “selfimprove”… WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong
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@SirDimples@programming.dev 2026-08-03 10:43
Wow, got about 9 repos of mine there and a few from my startup’s, only public ones are scraped so I say fair enough. Happy to have switched to running my own git infra a year ago