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I don't understand HuggingFace's model at all. I went to try out StarCoder LLM & happily downloaded the git repo. Installed some pre-reqs. But the next step was

I don't understand HuggingFace's model at all. I went to try out StarCoder LLM & happily downloaded the git repo. Installed some pre-reqs. But the next step was to create a Huggingface account, to use this locally? I noped the heck out. I came back latter to try to understand what was going on, why I'd need an account. I could find nothing helpful to tell me what was going on. I have never seen a more nebulous relationship with a company. I could be missing lots of hints, but I tried real hard to understand what's happening here & all of it felt extremely suspicious.

version_five 3y ago
Starcoder has this (imo stupid) openrail "responsible AI" license where you agree to not break the law with it, in order to satisfy the egos of the people that released it. And they claim to collect personal information in relation to that iirc. Huggingface doesn't require login for lots of models, though e.g. for stable diffusion I had to log in in the past and I don't anymore. And I've downloaded various llms without logging in.