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evijitΒ 
posted an update about 2 months ago
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Weekend mini project! Since commentary on AI is inherently interdisciplinary, we connected the observations in the Pope's encyclical with decades of scholarship in Responsible AI and Ethics research and created an interactive space with these annotations!

Work with @IJ-Reynolds , @yjernite , and @meg

Lots to unpack. We started with 105 annotations. Please submit pull requests for more that we may have missed!

society-ethics/annotated-encyclical
megΒ 
posted an update 9 months ago
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πŸ€– Did you know your voice might be cloned without your consent from just *one sentence* of audio?
That's not great. So with @frimelle , we brainstormed a new idea for developers who want to curb malicious use: ✨The Voice Consent Gate.✨
Details, code, here: https://huggingface.co/blog/voice-consent-gate
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evijitΒ 
posted an update 10 months ago
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AI for Scientific Discovery Won't Work Without Fixing How We Collaborate.

My co-author @cgeorgiaw and I just published a paper challenging a core assumption: that the main barriers to AI in science are technical. They're not. They're social.

Key findings:

🚨 The "AI Scientist" myth delays progress: Waiting for AGI devalues human expertise and obscures science's real purpose: cultivating understanding, not just outputs.
πŸ“Š Wrong incentives: Datasets have 100x longer impact than models, yet data curation is undervalued.
⚠️ Broken collaboration: Domain scientists want understanding. ML researchers optimize performance. Without shared language, projects fail.
πŸ” Fragmentation costs years: Harmonizing just 9 cancer files took 329 hours.

Why this matters: Upstream bottlenecks like efficient PDE solvers could accelerate discovery across multiple sciences. CASP mobilized a community around protein structure, enabling AlphaFold. We need this for dozens of challenges.

Thus, we're launching Hugging Science! A global community addressing these barriers through collaborative challenges, open toolkits, education, and community-owned infrastructure. Please find all the links below!

Paper: AI for Scientific Discovery is a Social Problem (2509.06580)
Join:
hugging-science

Discord: https://discord.com/invite/VYkdEVjJ5J
megΒ 
posted an update 10 months ago
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πŸ€– As AI-generated content is shared in movies/TV/across the web, there's one simple low-hanging fruit πŸ‡ to help know what's real: Visible watermarks. With the Gradio team, I've made sure it's trivially easy to add this disclosure to images, video, chatbot text. See how: https://huggingface.co/blog/watermarking-with-gradio
Thanks to the code collab in particular from @abidlabs and Yuvraj Sharma.
megΒ 
posted an update 12 months ago
megΒ 
posted an update 12 months ago
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πŸ€– ICYMI: Yesterday, Hugging Face and OpenAI partnered to bring open source GPT to the public. This is a Big Deal in "AI world".

0. Common ground setting: OpenAI is the ChatGPT people. An β€œopen source” model is one whose weights are available β€” that means the model can be β€œyours”.
1. You don’t have to interact with the company directly, nor give them your interactions, to use the system. The company can't "surveil" you.
2. You can evaluate the unique contributions of their SOTA model much more rigorously than you can when there are collections of models+code behind a closed API. You can find out specifically what the model can and can't do.
3. And you can directly customize it for whatever you'd like. Fine-tuning, wherein you give the model data that's tailored to your use cases and train it some more on that data, is trivial* when you have the model weights.
*Provided you have the compute.
4. You can directly benchmark whatever you'd like. Biases? Energy usage? Strengths/weaknesses? Go for it. You wants it you gots it--this transparency helps people understand SOTA *in general*, not just for this model, but points to, e.g., what's going on with closed Google models as well.
5. One of the most powerful things about "openness" that I've learned is that it cultivates ecosystems of collaborators building on top of one another's brilliance to make systems that are significantly better than they would be if created in isolation.
But, caveat wrt my own philosophy...
6. I do not take it as a given that advancing LLMs is good, and have a lot more to say wrt where I think innovation should focus more. For example, a focus on *data* -- curation, measurement, consent, credit, compensation, safety -- would deeply improve technology for everyone.
7. The transparency this release provides is massive for people who want to *learn* about LLMs. For the next generation of technologists to advance over the current, they MUST be able to learn about what's happening now. (cont...)
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megΒ 
posted an update 12 months ago
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πŸ€– πŸ‘Ύ Thanks so much to BBC News and the stellar Suranjana Tewari for having me on to talk about US <β€”> China relationship in AI, and what it means for AI ethics.
evijitΒ 
posted an update about 1 year ago
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New blog post alert! "What is the Hugging Face Community Building?", with @yjernite and @irenesolaiman

What 1.8 Million Models Reveal About Open Source Innovation: Our latest deep dive into the Hugging Face Hub reveals patterns that challenge conventional AI narratives:

πŸ”— Models become platforms for innovation Qwen, Llama, and Gemma models have spawned entire ecosystems of specialized variants. Looking at derivative works shows community adoption better than any single metric.

πŸ“Š Datasets reveal the foundation layer β†’ Most downloaded datasets are evaluation benchmarks (MMLU, Squad, GLUE) β†’ Universities and research institutions dominate foundational data β†’ Domain-specific datasets thrive across finance, healthcare, robotics, and science β†’ Open actors provide the datasets that power most AI development

πŸ›οΈ Research institutions lead the charge: AI2 (Allen Institute) emerges as one of the most active contributors, alongside significant activity from IBM, NVIDIA, and international organizations. The open source ecosystem spans far beyond Big Tech.

πŸ” Interactive exploration tools: We've built several tools to help you discover patterns!

ModelVerse Explorer - organizational contributions
DataVerse Explorer - dataset patterns
Organization HeatMap - activity over time
Base Model Explorer - model family trees
Semantic Search - find models by capability

πŸ“š Academic research is thriving: Researchers are already producing valuable insights, including recent work at FAccT 2025: "The Brief and Wondrous Life of Open Models." We've also made hub datasets, weekly snapshots, and other data available for your own analysis.

The bottom line: AI development is far more distributed, diverse, and collaborative than popular narratives suggest. Real innovation happens through community collaboration across specialized domains.

Read: https://huggingface.co/blog/evijit/hf-hub-ecosystem-overview