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Anybody else dislike the word huggingface? Also what is huggingface, why not just put these models up on Bittorrent? Whole thing weirds me out.

ilrwbwrkhv 3y ago
they started off building chatbot apps for teenagers. hugging face is this emoji -> https://emojipedia.org/hugging-face https://emojipedia.org/hugging-face apparently teens are into this stuff. then they pivoted into the whole ai thing like many other companies and are burning money now. the usual burn money till you get bought or you close the company with the owners getting rich of secondaries and your "lessons". edit: here is an old article https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/09/hugging-face-wants-to-become-your-artificial-bff/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/09/hugging-face-wants-to-beco...
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- minimaxir 3y ago
  > then they pivoted into the whole ai thing Hugging Face first gained popularity as they provided the first PyTorch-friendly implementations of BERT and GPT-2, which later became the transformers library. They didn't pivot to AI, they were there since the start.
- m0zzie 3y ago
  > then they pivoted into the whole ai thing like many other companies I have nothing to do with the company, nor do I really use their platform, but I felt a need to point something out: your statement is a pretty egregious trivialisation of huggingface and their contributions to AI. They were releasing NLP papers in early 2018, and in the same year open-sourced one of the most impactful ML libraries in the industry's history. The original chatbot app was dropped very early on and their full focus became the research, tooling, and platform.
yreg 3y ago
For some models you have to accept an eula before you can download them. Hence no bittorrent.
- MCUmaster 3y ago
  Those aren’t legal in my country.
  - yreg 3y ago
    And that should motivate the authors to put the models on bittorrent?
    - MCUmaster 3y ago
      Huggingface having some check box to tick before I download hasn’t stopped me yet.
MandieD 3y ago
Yes, because the first thing I think of is the Facehugger from Alien.
- orbital-decay 3y ago
  For some reason I always assumed it's a deliberate pun/reference on their part, but turns out it isn't, they named it after the emoji.
  - MandieD 3y ago
    Me, too - I didn't immediately associate their logo with an emoji, but thought it was a cute-ified version of the Facehugger.
raziel2701 3y ago
My mind always thinks facehuggers from Alien.
dontupvoteme 3y ago
it's a horrific name but a decent company, it deeply annoys me to have to preface the name of a big player with a disclaimer about how stupid the name it when talking to people
- LanzVonL 3y ago
  Is it really a big player? It looks primarily like a download site.
  - dontupvoteme 3y ago
    Well, they're a part of the community. I don't know who wants to host petabytes of LLMs.

ilrwbwrkhv 3y ago

they started off building chatbot apps for teenagers. hugging face is this emoji -> https://emojipedia.org/hugging-face https://emojipedia.org/hugging-face apparently teens are into this stuff. then they pivoted into the whole ai thing like many other companies and are burning money now. the usual burn money till you get bought or you close the company with the owners getting rich of secondaries and your "lessons". edit: here is an old article https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/09/hugging-face-wants-to-become-your-artificial-bff/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/09/hugging-face-wants-to-beco...

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minimaxir 3y ago
> then they pivoted into the whole ai thing Hugging Face first gained popularity as they provided the first PyTorch-friendly implementations of BERT and GPT-2, which later became the transformers library. They didn't pivot to AI, they were there since the start.
m0zzie 3y ago
> then they pivoted into the whole ai thing like many other companies I have nothing to do with the company, nor do I really use their platform, but I felt a need to point something out: your statement is a pretty egregious trivialisation of huggingface and their contributions to AI. They were releasing NLP papers in early 2018, and in the same year open-sourced one of the most impactful ML libraries in the industry's history. The original chatbot app was dropped very early on and their full focus became the research, tooling, and platform.

yreg 3y ago

For some models you have to accept an eula before you can download them. Hence no bittorrent.

MCUmaster 3y ago
Those aren’t legal in my country.
- yreg 3y ago
  And that should motivate the authors to put the models on bittorrent?
  - MCUmaster 3y ago
    Huggingface having some check box to tick before I download hasn’t stopped me yet.

MandieD 3y ago

Yes, because the first thing I think of is the Facehugger from Alien.

orbital-decay 3y ago
For some reason I always assumed it's a deliberate pun/reference on their part, but turns out it isn't, they named it after the emoji.
- MandieD 3y ago
  Me, too - I didn't immediately associate their logo with an emoji, but thought it was a cute-ified version of the Facehugger.

raziel2701 3y ago

My mind always thinks facehuggers from Alien.

dontupvoteme 3y ago

it's a horrific name but a decent company, it deeply annoys me to have to preface the name of a big player with a disclaimer about how stupid the name it when talking to people

LanzVonL 3y ago
Is it really a big player? It looks primarily like a download site.
- dontupvoteme 3y ago
  Well, they're a part of the community. I don't know who wants to host petabytes of LLMs.