Hugging Face Wants Your Taxpayer-Funded Science for Free

The claim: Hugging Face announced Project ProtoStar to curate, clean, and format publicly funded scientific research into machine-readable datasets suitable for modern artificial intelligence training.

The reality: This is a pipeline to funnel decades of taxpayer-funded academic papers straight into corporate LLM training runs without paying university licensing fees or securing institutional consent.

Why should I care? You shouldn't
Just another intermediary repackaging public research so venture-backed startups can claim they solved the data shortage.

Read the original: Announcing Project ProtoStar: Making Publicly Funded Science AI-Ready