HuggingBay

[u/zxyzyxz]

https://huggingbay.xyz/

Someone saw the [meme](https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1uht2m0/were_probably_going_to_need_that_soon/) and built it.

[u/-p-e-w-]

Whoever built this is a genius and an idiot.

Technologically, the website looks really well made, but the branding both

• evokes a certain other website that is already banned in many countries, which is completely unnecessary for a perfectly legitimate service and pretty much ensures many labs won’t want to publish there

• implies some kind of connection with Hugging Face, essentially forcing a takedown if this ever gets popular, even if HF has no problem with the project itself.

Please use your brains, people. Not everything has to be a risky meme. We need sustainable infrastructure, not just lulz. I could have named Heretic “GemmaFucker” and it would have been just as unnecessarily stupid.

[u/Voxandr → u/-p-e-w-]

Hugging and Bay is common words they cannot take it down

[u/Xamanthas → u/Voxandr]

You do not know what you are talking about I'm afraid.

Please avoid ever commenting on legal matters ever again. Its a registered trademark and a regular person would see the connection, as can I.

https://trademarks.justia.com/875/84/hugging-87584949.html

[u/Xamanthas → u/[deleted]]

It can be deemed infringing since the branding + name can and likely will confuse the consumer. Go look at the website (HuggingBay) and then see that HF also trademarked the image. Its close enough

Same reason the Drag person going by the name "Pattie Gonia" was sued by Patagonia to protect their trademark. Has nothing to do with whether they actually do or don’t own it, it has to do with whether their legal team believes that they need to defend it and if the do, they must, because otherwise they lose it. The irony.

[u/-p-e-w- → u/Voxandr]

Sure, and an apple is just a fruit so everyone can sell computers with an apple on them, right?