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I thought you didn't need an account to download from HF anymore. You can just do git lfs pull, at least for the stuff I've downloaded. Personally I'm concerne

I thought you didn't need an account to download from HF anymore. You can just do git lfs pull, at least for the stuff I've downloaded. Personally I'm concerned about how model hosting has been concentrated in one company, and was previously very unhappy that they required accounts, but I think that's past. Let me know if it's still the case for some things.

ftxbro 3y ago
It is suggesting that I have to make an account. When I go to https://huggingface.co/bigcode/starcoder https://huggingface.co/bigcode/starcoder it says "You need to agree to share your contact informations to access this model" and "[Log in] or [Sign Up] to review the conditions and access this model content."
- version_five 3y ago
  Yeah you're right, that's super lame. It used to be like that with stable diffusion but they took the HF login requirement off at some point. It's enough of a deal breaker for me to not bother using the model. Especially when it's developed by a company that (I assume) wants to harvest your contact info - unless there's some other explanation for the login requirement. (I tried git lfs clone and got asked for hf login credentials)
  - reneberlin 3y ago
    It's just because you should check / accept and align to the license, how i understood it. I do not believe in data harvesting ideas by them.
    - ftxbro 3y ago
      so let me click a checkbox 'i agree'
      - version_five 3y ago
        Or just implicitly agree, which (for better or worse) is the normal way for open licensing. Also, if you click through to the link posted up thread and go to "files" to try and download them, it explicitly says You need to agree to share your contact informations to access this model That may be boilerplate but it certainly implies they're taking your information, not just asking you to agree to a license.
        reneberlin 3y ago
        But only to sue you when you are doing nasty things, that are against the license and they get wind about it. Regardless of that it doesn't work to backward-identify you, it was necessary to the legal aspect of their side of the license to have restricted access. Else this licence simply wouldn't work.
        ftxbro 3y ago
        > Else this licence simply wouldn't work. Well OK but then I don't like their license either, if they have make me do things I don't like as a requirement to make their license work.

ftxbro 3y ago

It is suggesting that I have to make an account. When I go to https://huggingface.co/bigcode/starcoder https://huggingface.co/bigcode/starcoder it says "You need to agree to share your contact informations to access this model" and "[Log in] or [Sign Up] to review the conditions and access this model content."

version_five 3y ago
Yeah you're right, that's super lame. It used to be like that with stable diffusion but they took the HF login requirement off at some point. It's enough of a deal breaker for me to not bother using the model. Especially when it's developed by a company that (I assume) wants to harvest your contact info - unless there's some other explanation for the login requirement. (I tried git lfs clone and got asked for hf login credentials)
- reneberlin 3y ago
  It's just because you should check / accept and align to the license, how i understood it. I do not believe in data harvesting ideas by them.
  - ftxbro 3y ago
    so let me click a checkbox 'i agree'
    - version_five 3y ago
      Or just implicitly agree, which (for better or worse) is the normal way for open licensing. Also, if you click through to the link posted up thread and go to "files" to try and download them, it explicitly says You need to agree to share your contact informations to access this model That may be boilerplate but it certainly implies they're taking your information, not just asking you to agree to a license.
      - reneberlin 3y ago
        But only to sue you when you are doing nasty things, that are against the license and they get wind about it. Regardless of that it doesn't work to backward-identify you, it was necessary to the legal aspect of their side of the license to have restricted access. Else this licence simply wouldn't work.
        ftxbro 3y ago
        > Else this licence simply wouldn't work. Well OK but then I don't like their license either, if they have make me do things I don't like as a requirement to make their license work.