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HuggingFace CEO has concerns about Chinese open source AI models

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China’s open source AI models have been making the news lately for their strong performance on various AI tasks such as coding and ‘reasoning.’  However, they have also attracted criticism – including from OpenAI employees – for censoring topics sensitive to the Chinese government, such as the Tiananmen Square massacre. HuggingFace’s CEO Clement Delangue says […]

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Bluesky’s open API means anyone can scrape your data for AI training

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Bluesky might not be training AI systems on user content as other social networks are doing, but there’s little stopping third-parties from doing so. Per a report by 404 Media, a machine learning librarian at AI firm Hugging Face pulled 1 million public posts from Bluesky via its Firehose API for machine learning research, pushing

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Hugging Face says it detected ‘unauthorized access’ to its AI model hosting platform

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Late Friday afternoon, a time window companies usually reserve for unflattering disclosures, AI startup Hugging Face said that its security team earlier this week detected “unauthorized access” to Spaces, Hugging Face’s platform for creating, sharing and hosting AI models and resources. In a blog post, Hugging Face said that the intrusion related to Spaces secrets,

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