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Hugging Face releases 15.9 TB code dataset, sparking copyright concerns

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The Stack v3, a 15.9 TB dataset comprising source code from 173 million repositories across 713 programming languages, has been released. This dataset, compiled by Hugging Face, was scraped from GitHub in 2025. Concerns have been raised regarding the use of personal and organizational projects, including potentially copyrighted material like PhD theses and algorithms, for training large language models. AI

IMPACT Raises questions about data provenance and copyright for LLM training datasets.

RANK_REASON Release of a large dataset for AI training. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Hugging Face releases 15.9 TB code dataset, sparking copyright concerns

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Am I in The Stack V3, https:// huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingF aceCode/in-the-stack . > The Stack v3 is a 15.9 TB dataset of source code across 713 programming l

    Am I in The Stack V3, https:// huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingF aceCode/in-the-stack . > The Stack v3 is a 15.9 TB dataset of source code across 713 programming languages from 173M repositories, crawled from GitHub in 2025 ALL my projects have been used to train this model. All of …

    LINKS huggingface.co/…/in-the-stack huggingface.co/…/spaces

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