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[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

And now they are sad and blame bsky for being toxic, on xitter, the chill and accepting app.

[–] self@awful.systems 1 points 1 minute ago

my colleagues are kind, caring people & they were attacked (idc if I get attacked so long as it doesn't touch my company/colleagues) we've always seen love for our work, this incident shocked me

we'll keep shipping 📦💗 can't satisfy all

Don't take out your frustration from election results on them, LOSERS

it’s really jarring seeing one of the biggest hosts for generative AI projects simultaneously do “we’re just an uwu smol bean open source passion project why are you attacking us” while boosting and officially supporting chan-coded fash shit from an e/acc account

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 6 points 7 hours ago

the aggrieved attitude of “but i am a socialist” is really adorable.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hugging Face is the most ethical AI company ever!

https://huggingface.co/DreamAngel/Hana_Bunny_v1.0

original archive: https://archive.is/stbxz

this is a model created to generate fake AI revenge porn nudes of a specific influencer

they switched off access only just now, because Bluesky was hammering the HF staff with "the fuck you're an ethical company"

(CONTENT WARNING: pic of AI boobs)

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So they named the product sucking the data after the Facehugger? At least they know that they are in the abomination business. Will they be releasing an AI named Bursting Chest?

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] self@awful.systems 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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
[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago

404 added an update that the dataset was removed:

Update: Following the publication of this article on Tuesday evening, van Strien removed the dataset. "I've removed the Bluesky data from the repo," he wrote on Bluesky. "While I wanted to support tool development for the platform, I recognize this approach violated principles of transparency and consent in data collection. I apologize for this mistake."

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I hope Blue sky sues them.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 3 points 7 hours ago

i bet that bluesky worked with them to get their company and all their personal accounts established at bluesky as the primary social media channel.

i don't expect they will get anything more than a slap on the wrists, if at all.