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.
“Oh no, people are using information I put publicly available on the internet for everyone to see!”
Morons. The lot of you.
Sure. Let’s see if they use it for endeavours in the same spirit.
Or are you fine with they using this data for-profit without benefitting the public by also making it open?
(not talking about hf, I know starcoder. just in general)
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. ♥️