Ask HN: Who's the current “Don't Be Evil” corporation?

Re:Ask HN: Who's the current “Don't Be Evil” corporation? by JohnFen on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @02:11PM (#36699128)

I didn't downvote, but I think there's a difference between a company being a "don't be evil" company and being an evil company.

Huggingface may very well be perceived as neutral or unproven, and so qualifies as neither. (Just speculating).

> They're literally the bastion of open source AI.

I don't see how that affects the "evil or not" question at all.

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Re:Ask HN: Who's the current “Don't Be Evil” corporation? by Der_Einzige on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @02:14PM (#36699188)

Well, I consider OpenAI evil for not open sourcing their... Everything.

Everything meaningful that huggingface does is open source. They are literally the atlas holding up NLP and diffusion models right now. They are the least evil company in tech right now by far.

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Re:Ask HN: Who's the current “Don't Be Evil” corporation? by JohnFen on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @02:18PM (#36699267)

Well, if your yardstick of for measuring "evil" is just whether or not they support open source, I understand your stance.

But I disagree with that as the measure. There are OSS outfits that I think do evil.

I know nothing about Huggingface and so I'm not commenting on them specifically. I'm just speaking generally.

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