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PSA Huggingface is scraping GitHub (europe.pub)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceCode/in-the-stack

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[–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Quoting one sentence from a book is fair use even if you shoplifted that book.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I would say this is a gray area of law. It hasn't been tested yet. There are a few factors in determining "fair use". One of those factors is commercialization, which could nullify fair use. Another is the amount you're using.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    Commercial parody is commonplace fair use. If it surpasses the original... oh well.

    The amount being used becomes negligible as the corpus grows. Filtering a billion webpages into one gigabyte means their average contribution is one byte. Play with the numbers all you like, it's gonna come out to less than a paragraph.

    If we went full copyright maximalist, and criminally banned using anything but public-domain / BSD / CC0 works, the commercial impact would not be much different. The technology itself shifts the economics of text, images, video, and code.

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