Ethics and Society Newsletter #3: Ethical Openness at Hugging Face

Ethics? It’s marketing noise most of the time. Hugging Face pushing ethical guidelines is good PR, but the real problem is the liability. Open source just means more people are deploying buggy, biased code without oversight. We're talking about massive downstream risk when models make decisions for money. It’s a compliance nightmare wrapped up in a philosophical debate.

If you're serious, focus on auditing the inputs and outputs, not just the license. Being 'open' doesn't absolve you of responsibility when a system costs a client millions.