Privacy Disasters: FaceHuggers Are Eating Your Skeets
Good take from Carey Lening on the recent Hugging Face release of a million-BlueSky-post dataset:
Once again, we’ve got a collective action problem that’s being ignored in favor of technological progress, big money, data extraction, and libertarian notions of ‘public data’. It’s a shitty look. Both Bluesky and HF are acting like the host who’s egging the dickheads on, and it’s really disappointing as a user to know that this is probably what we should have expected all along.
(tags: data hugging-face ai training bluesky public data-protection privacy datasets scraping)