Would be a terrible shame if lots of people opted out.
If you are a EU citizen you might also want to write a complaint to privacy@huggingface.co because they are collecting your personally identifiable information in machine-readable form which they are distributing to third parties.
How is this remotely stealing?
It’s not, but it may be violation of licenses. And also, if it has personal information on it, that’s probably illegal under the GDPR.
They excluded code with non-permissive licenses apparently:
It’s all public so I would be extremely surprised if that were the case.
the method on github is to fork it not steal all the data in an external storage for external purposes without consent of the user.
edit: you can also report their whole account to github here: https://support.github.com/contact/report-abuse?category=report-abuse&report=bigcode-project&report_id=110470554&report_type=user
I’m pretty sure they just cloned the repos. That’s how GitHub is designed to work. Have you never cloned a repo from GitHub?
Yes, but I used it under the licence terms of the original developer.
So have they. They filter by license - see my other comment.
so if you are licenced under MIT and they use your code, they publish your copyright header?
Yes. If they train AI from your code? No, but the legality of that is yet to be settled and definitely leaning towards “it’s fine”.
It doesn’t seem that way. My list contains several repositories that don’t have licenses, even some with GPL.
not for private for profit use from shitty ai companies though…