Yeah, lots of respect for HuggingFace but this argument is pretty reductive. A very thin slice of the ML community/industry is rushing to short-term commercial

Yeah, lots of respect for HuggingFace but this argument is pretty reductive. A very thin slice of the ML community/industry is rushing to short-term commercialization of giant models, and there's nothing wrong with poking some fun at what's being ignored in that haste. But for most of the field, ever-inflating models are a probe for exploring the many types of unreasonable effectiveness of gradient descent. Knowing more about what's possible is incredibly valuable to engineering pragmatic applications of ML. Research and commercialization can happen in parallel, and both sides would be better off if they educated the public about the difference.