• Architeuthis@awful.systems
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    The company was named after the U+1F917 🤗 HUGGING FACE emoji.

    HF is more of a platform for publishing this sort of thing, as well as the neural networks themselves and a specialized cloud service to train and deploy them, I think. They are not primarily a tool vendor, and they were around well before the LLM hype cycle.

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      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
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        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

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        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.