Someone trained an AI on 4chan data; researchers' 'grave concern' got it pulled from Hugging Face
airkatakana · x · 2026-10-01
- A joke that training AI on 4chan instead of Reddit would already yield superintelligence prompted a reply: it actually happened.
- Someone did train a model on 4chan data, and it was removed from Hugging Face after a wave of researchers expressed "grave concern".
- A fun snapshot of the tension between data quality debates and safety gatekeeping in open model hosting.
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