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.
We want to give developers agency over their source code by letting them decide whether or not it should be used to develop and evaluate machine learning models.
fuck them seriously; if you want to do that then don’t steal the repositories in the first place.
Meanwhile at work we just had a training course that specifically said doing “opt out” instead of “opt in” violates the principle of informed consent.
Kinda hope it uses my code. It’s so terrible there’s no doubt it will make the resulting code from the model worse even if the impact is miniscule
A little bit infuriating since huggingface itself requires login to access a large portion of the content on their site
if I opt out, will the Roko’s basilisk come after me?
Reported for cognitohazard. Delete this immediately.
(I kid, but someone really did report your comment.)
As long as you haven’t been told what you’re opting out of, you’re good.
The best way to opt out is by not using GitHub. Also opts you out of Copilot and a bunch of other stuff.
When I back something up, I save a copy and add “backup” to the name… Because I’m advanced.
If I’m feeling really good and healthy, I’ll even put it on a usb stick.
note that former users would have needed to remove their GitHub data before August 2025 to not be in this dataset
Already did that some time ago but I am still in the dataset.
Wonder how many of those repos contain AI-generated code?
tbh i’m thinking this alone isn’t that bad from an archiver/datahoarder perspective
“Oh no, people are using information I put publicly available on the internet for everyone to see!”
Morons. The lot of you.
I did it to invite collaboration and connect with other developers with similar interests. FOSS is more about building communities than building software, after all.
I did not anticipate that it could be (legally) used to dismantle the kinds of communities I wanted to build. (I did anticipate that it could be illegally used to that end, but historically that has tended to cause a Streisand Effect, so that risk seemed worth it.)
Love you too, kitten. ♥️
Is there a form to ask to be included in the next stack? they seem to have missed me this time
