Yacine Jernite
@yjernite.bsky.social
Head of ML & Society at Hugging Face 🤗
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Think AI's rising energy demands aren't your problem? Think again! ⚡
In our commentary, @yjernite.bsky.social and I explain how AI & data center expansion is making energy bills rise in the US, what the mechanisms driving this are, and why it matters.
www.techpolicy.press/how-your-uti...
In our commentary, @yjernite.bsky.social and I explain how AI & data center expansion is making energy bills rise in the US, what the mechanisms driving this are, and why it matters.
www.techpolicy.press/how-your-uti...
How Your Utility Bills Are Subsidizing Power-Hungry AI | TechPolicy.Press
The next few years will be pivotal for determining the future of AI and its impact on energy grids worldwide, write Sasha Luccioni and Yacine Jernite.
www.techpolicy.press
August 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Think AI's rising energy demands aren't your problem? Think again! ⚡
In our commentary, @yjernite.bsky.social and I explain how AI & data center expansion is making energy bills rise in the US, what the mechanisms driving this are, and why it matters.
www.techpolicy.press/how-your-uti...
In our commentary, @yjernite.bsky.social and I explain how AI & data center expansion is making energy bills rise in the US, what the mechanisms driving this are, and why it matters.
www.techpolicy.press/how-your-uti...
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As tech firms keep adding the largest and most compute-intensive AI models into more and more aspects of our digital lives, they are increasingly dependent on a growing share of existing energy and natural resources, leading to rising costs for everyone else, write Sasha Luccioni and Yacine Jernite.
How Your Utility Bills Are Subsidizing Power-Hungry AI | TechPolicy.Press
The next few years will be pivotal for determining the future of AI and its impact on energy grids worldwide, write Sasha Luccioni and Yacine Jernite.
www.techpolicy.press
August 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
As tech firms keep adding the largest and most compute-intensive AI models into more and more aspects of our digital lives, they are increasingly dependent on a growing share of existing energy and natural resources, leading to rising costs for everyone else, write Sasha Luccioni and Yacine Jernite.
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From Replika to everyday chatbots, people form emotional bonds with AI. But what happens when an AI tells you "I understand how you feel" and you actually believe it?
With @frimelle.bsky.social and @yjernite.bsky.social, we dug into something: how AI systems handle our emotional lives.
With @frimelle.bsky.social and @yjernite.bsky.social, we dug into something: how AI systems handle our emotional lives.
AI Companionship: Why We Need to Evaluate How AI Systems Handle Emotional Bonds
A Blog post by Giada Pistilli on Hugging Face
huggingface.co
July 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
From Replika to everyday chatbots, people form emotional bonds with AI. But what happens when an AI tells you "I understand how you feel" and you actually believe it?
With @frimelle.bsky.social and @yjernite.bsky.social, we dug into something: how AI systems handle our emotional lives.
With @frimelle.bsky.social and @yjernite.bsky.social, we dug into something: how AI systems handle our emotional lives.
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Friends!
Does anyone know of any model distillation with public logs (W&B or other)?
I'm trying to figure out the energy tradeoffs between model training and distillation..
Does anyone know of any model distillation with public logs (W&B or other)?
I'm trying to figure out the energy tradeoffs between model training and distillation..
July 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Friends!
Does anyone know of any model distillation with public logs (W&B or other)?
I'm trying to figure out the energy tradeoffs between model training and distillation..
Does anyone know of any model distillation with public logs (W&B or other)?
I'm trying to figure out the energy tradeoffs between model training and distillation..
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New blog post alert! 🚨"What is the Hugging Face Community Building?", with @yjernite.bsky.social and Irene Soliaman
The AI narrative focuses on big players, but the real story is happening in the open source AI ecosystem across 1.8M models, 450K datasets, and 560K apps, on
@hf.co.
The AI narrative focuses on big players, but the real story is happening in the open source AI ecosystem across 1.8M models, 450K datasets, and 560K apps, on
@hf.co.
July 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
New blog post alert! 🚨"What is the Hugging Face Community Building?", with @yjernite.bsky.social and Irene Soliaman
The AI narrative focuses on big players, but the real story is happening in the open source AI ecosystem across 1.8M models, 450K datasets, and 560K apps, on
@hf.co.
The AI narrative focuses on big players, but the real story is happening in the open source AI ecosystem across 1.8M models, 450K datasets, and 560K apps, on
@hf.co.
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One of the biggest frustrations I have is the lack of transparency around AI's energy use and environmental impacts. I know the numbers are out there... but somehow we're not seeing them 🫠
Thank you @wired.com for covering this topic in such depth and detail !
www.wired.com/story/ai-car...
Thank you @wired.com for covering this topic in such depth and detail !
www.wired.com/story/ai-car...
How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying
A growing body of research attempts to put a number on energy use and AI—even as the companies behind the most popular models keep their carbon emissions a secret.
www.wired.com
June 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
One of the biggest frustrations I have is the lack of transparency around AI's energy use and environmental impacts. I know the numbers are out there... but somehow we're not seeing them 🫠
Thank you @wired.com for covering this topic in such depth and detail !
www.wired.com/story/ai-car...
Thank you @wired.com for covering this topic in such depth and detail !
www.wired.com/story/ai-car...
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“AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums” – interesting piece via @404media.co
Not a perfect fix, but making ML-ready datasets from collections can help.
If you want help getting your data on @hf.co, I'd be happy to help.
Not a perfect fix, but making ML-ready datasets from collections can help.
If you want help getting your data on @hf.co, I'd be happy to help.
June 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM
“AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums” – interesting piece via @404media.co
Not a perfect fix, but making ML-ready datasets from collections can help.
If you want help getting your data on @hf.co, I'd be happy to help.
Not a perfect fix, but making ML-ready datasets from collections can help.
If you want help getting your data on @hf.co, I'd be happy to help.
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Institutional Books: Massive Historical Text Corpus
- 983K books, 242B tokens, 386M pages
- 19th-20th century texts in 254 languages
- Refined OCR with quality scores & metadata
- Noncommercial early-access release
huggingface.co/datasets/ins...
- 983K books, 242B tokens, 386M pages
- 19th-20th century texts in 254 languages
- Refined OCR with quality scores & metadata
- Noncommercial early-access release
huggingface.co/datasets/ins...
institutional/institutional-books-1.0 · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
June 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Institutional Books: Massive Historical Text Corpus
- 983K books, 242B tokens, 386M pages
- 19th-20th century texts in 254 languages
- Refined OCR with quality scores & metadata
- Noncommercial early-access release
huggingface.co/datasets/ins...
- 983K books, 242B tokens, 386M pages
- 19th-20th century texts in 254 languages
- Refined OCR with quality scores & metadata
- Noncommercial early-access release
huggingface.co/datasets/ins...
Great blog post on *Digital Sovereignty and OS AI* led by the fantastic @frimelle.bsky.social!
Digital sovereignty for AI needs to properly account for:
📚 data
🧑🔬 technology
💽 infrastructure
⚖️ regulation
Open/transparent AI contributes to all, read for some concrete examples!
hf.co/blog/frimell...
Digital sovereignty for AI needs to properly account for:
📚 data
🧑🔬 technology
💽 infrastructure
⚖️ regulation
Open/transparent AI contributes to all, read for some concrete examples!
hf.co/blog/frimell...
Open Source AI: A Cornerstone of Digital Sovereignty
A Blog post by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee on Hugging Face
huggingface.co
June 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Great blog post on *Digital Sovereignty and OS AI* led by the fantastic @frimelle.bsky.social!
Digital sovereignty for AI needs to properly account for:
📚 data
🧑🔬 technology
💽 infrastructure
⚖️ regulation
Open/transparent AI contributes to all, read for some concrete examples!
hf.co/blog/frimell...
Digital sovereignty for AI needs to properly account for:
📚 data
🧑🔬 technology
💽 infrastructure
⚖️ regulation
Open/transparent AI contributes to all, read for some concrete examples!
hf.co/blog/frimell...
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❗️New policy blogpost!
The EU is speaking a lot about sovereignty. A cornerstone of digital sovereignty is and has to be open source.
As AI becomes more central, the ability to govern, adapt, and understand these systems is no longer optional.
The EU is speaking a lot about sovereignty. A cornerstone of digital sovereignty is and has to be open source.
As AI becomes more central, the ability to govern, adapt, and understand these systems is no longer optional.
June 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
❗️New policy blogpost!
The EU is speaking a lot about sovereignty. A cornerstone of digital sovereignty is and has to be open source.
As AI becomes more central, the ability to govern, adapt, and understand these systems is no longer optional.
The EU is speaking a lot about sovereignty. A cornerstone of digital sovereignty is and has to be open source.
As AI becomes more central, the ability to govern, adapt, and understand these systems is no longer optional.
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Off-mark from @sanders.senate.gov.
We need progressive legislators to not buy into the clown show from AI CEOs. Labor replacement is not real, labor displacement is.
We need regulation to protect workers and anticipate the kind of worker speedups that employers buying into the hype will cause.
We need progressive legislators to not buy into the clown show from AI CEOs. Labor replacement is not real, labor displacement is.
We need regulation to protect workers and anticipate the kind of worker speedups that employers buying into the hype will cause.
June 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Off-mark from @sanders.senate.gov.
We need progressive legislators to not buy into the clown show from AI CEOs. Labor replacement is not real, labor displacement is.
We need regulation to protect workers and anticipate the kind of worker speedups that employers buying into the hype will cause.
We need progressive legislators to not buy into the clown show from AI CEOs. Labor replacement is not real, labor displacement is.
We need regulation to protect workers and anticipate the kind of worker speedups that employers buying into the hype will cause.
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How can we make informed choices based on performance AND energy when using AI in real-life tasks like question answering? By evaluating them and picking the models that optimize both factors!
Check out my new blog post on the subject:
huggingface.co/blog/sasha/e...
Check out my new blog post on the subject:
huggingface.co/blog/sasha/e...
Bigger isn't always better: how to choose the most efficient model for context-specific tasks 🌱🧑🏼💻
A Blog post by Sasha Luccioni on Hugging Face
huggingface.co
May 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
How can we make informed choices based on performance AND energy when using AI in real-life tasks like question answering? By evaluating them and picking the models that optimize both factors!
Check out my new blog post on the subject:
huggingface.co/blog/sasha/e...
Check out my new blog post on the subject:
huggingface.co/blog/sasha/e...
I'm consistently impressed by @giadapistilli.com's extensive insights into AI technology 🤗
Her latest blog on design factors of AI "companions" shows that those go way beyond model performance and give some nice hands-on tool to do your own analysis - must read!
huggingface.co/blog/giadap/...
Her latest blog on design factors of AI "companions" shows that those go way beyond model performance and give some nice hands-on tool to do your own analysis - must read!
huggingface.co/blog/giadap/...
AI Personas: The Impact of Design Choices
A Blog post by Giada Pistilli on Hugging Face
huggingface.co
May 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I'm consistently impressed by @giadapistilli.com's extensive insights into AI technology 🤗
Her latest blog on design factors of AI "companions" shows that those go way beyond model performance and give some nice hands-on tool to do your own analysis - must read!
huggingface.co/blog/giadap/...
Her latest blog on design factors of AI "companions" shows that those go way beyond model performance and give some nice hands-on tool to do your own analysis - must read!
huggingface.co/blog/giadap/...
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Ever notice how some AI assistants feel like tools while others feel like companions? Turns out, it's not always about fancy tech upgrades, because sometimes it's just clever design.
huggingface.co/blog/giadap/...
huggingface.co/blog/giadap/...
AI Personas: The Impact of Design Choices
A Blog post by Giada Pistilli on Hugging Face
huggingface.co
May 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Ever notice how some AI assistants feel like tools while others feel like companions? Turns out, it's not always about fancy tech upgrades, because sometimes it's just clever design.
huggingface.co/blog/giadap/...
huggingface.co/blog/giadap/...
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We just integrated the new Qwen3-8B into Chat UI Energy and asked it to do a simple multiplication problem.
What's the energy cost?
→ Without reasoning: wrong (😅), but low energy use
→ With reasoning: correct (!!)… but using 42x more energy!
What's the energy cost?
→ Without reasoning: wrong (😅), but low energy use
→ With reasoning: correct (!!)… but using 42x more energy!
April 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
We just integrated the new Qwen3-8B into Chat UI Energy and asked it to do a simple multiplication problem.
What's the energy cost?
→ Without reasoning: wrong (😅), but low energy use
→ With reasoning: correct (!!)… but using 42x more energy!
What's the energy cost?
→ Without reasoning: wrong (😅), but low energy use
→ With reasoning: correct (!!)… but using 42x more energy!
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🤗 New from us! Just published a blog post exploring how we're rethinking consent in the AI ecosystem.
Here's what we're seeing in the @hf.co Hub that differs from traditional closed systems...
Here's what we're seeing in the @hf.co Hub that differs from traditional closed systems...
Consent by Design: Approaches to User Data in Open AI Ecosystems
A Blog post by Giada Pistilli on Hugging Face
huggingface.co
April 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🤗 New from us! Just published a blog post exploring how we're rethinking consent in the AI ecosystem.
Here's what we're seeing in the @hf.co Hub that differs from traditional closed systems...
Here's what we're seeing in the @hf.co Hub that differs from traditional closed systems...
Today in Privacy & AI Tooling - introducing a nifty new tool to examine where data goes in open-source apps on @hf.co 🤗
HF Spaces have tons (100Ks!) of cool demos leveraging or examining AI systems - and because most of them are OSS we can see exactly how they handle user data 📚🔍
1/4 🧵
HF Spaces have tons (100Ks!) of cool demos leveraging or examining AI systems - and because most of them are OSS we can see exactly how they handle user data 📚🔍
1/4 🧵
April 16, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Today in Privacy & AI Tooling - introducing a nifty new tool to examine where data goes in open-source apps on @hf.co 🤗
HF Spaces have tons (100Ks!) of cool demos leveraging or examining AI systems - and because most of them are OSS we can see exactly how they handle user data 📚🔍
1/4 🧵
HF Spaces have tons (100Ks!) of cool demos leveraging or examining AI systems - and because most of them are OSS we can see exactly how they handle user data 📚🔍
1/4 🧵
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Thrilled to share that our paper:
"It's not a representation of me": Examining Accent Bias and Digital Exclusion in Synthetic AI Voice Services - has been accepted at @facct.bsky.social 2025! - with @shiramichel.bsky.social , Sufi Kaur, Sarah Gilespie, Jeffrey Gleason and Dr. Christo Wilson.
"It's not a representation of me": Examining Accent Bias and Digital Exclusion in Synthetic AI Voice Services - has been accepted at @facct.bsky.social 2025! - with @shiramichel.bsky.social , Sufi Kaur, Sarah Gilespie, Jeffrey Gleason and Dr. Christo Wilson.
April 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Thrilled to share that our paper:
"It's not a representation of me": Examining Accent Bias and Digital Exclusion in Synthetic AI Voice Services - has been accepted at @facct.bsky.social 2025! - with @shiramichel.bsky.social , Sufi Kaur, Sarah Gilespie, Jeffrey Gleason and Dr. Christo Wilson.
"It's not a representation of me": Examining Accent Bias and Digital Exclusion in Synthetic AI Voice Services - has been accepted at @facct.bsky.social 2025! - with @shiramichel.bsky.social , Sufi Kaur, Sarah Gilespie, Jeffrey Gleason and Dr. Christo Wilson.
New blog post led by @evijit.io on wrangling public data for AI - and helping public orgs have more control over how AI systems serve their mission by shaping how their data's used📚
Have a read especially if your org's being asked to do more AI (common theme these days 🤗)
hf.co/blog/evijit/...
Have a read especially if your org's being asked to do more AI (common theme these days 🤗)
hf.co/blog/evijit/...
Empowering Public Organizations: Preparing Your Data for the AI Era
A Blog post by Avijit Ghosh on Hugging Face
huggingface.co
April 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
New blog post led by @evijit.io on wrangling public data for AI - and helping public orgs have more control over how AI systems serve their mission by shaping how their data's used📚
Have a read especially if your org's being asked to do more AI (common theme these days 🤗)
hf.co/blog/evijit/...
Have a read especially if your org's being asked to do more AI (common theme these days 🤗)
hf.co/blog/evijit/...
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🚨 New Article: Empowering Public Organizations: Preparing Your Data for the AI Era, with @yjernite.bsky.social
Let’s discuss how public organizations can unlock the full potential of their data in the age of AI.
Let’s discuss how public organizations can unlock the full potential of their data in the age of AI.
April 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🚨 New Article: Empowering Public Organizations: Preparing Your Data for the AI Era, with @yjernite.bsky.social
Let’s discuss how public organizations can unlock the full potential of their data in the age of AI.
Let’s discuss how public organizations can unlock the full potential of their data in the age of AI.
This is *extremely* cool
I'm increasingly excited about using the OLMo based apps for daily use - I find the playground genuinely better than the commercial apps whenever I need some originality, and the transparency/privacy guarantees are just so much stronger
I'm increasingly excited about using the OLMo based apps for daily use - I find the playground genuinely better than the commercial apps whenever I need some originality, and the transparency/privacy guarantees are just so much stronger
For years it’s been an open question — how much is a language model learning and synthesizing information, and how much is it just memorizing and reciting?
Introducing OLMoTrace, a new feature in the Ai2 Playground that begins to shed some light. 🔦
Introducing OLMoTrace, a new feature in the Ai2 Playground that begins to shed some light. 🔦
April 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
This is *extremely* cool
I'm increasingly excited about using the OLMo based apps for daily use - I find the playground genuinely better than the commercial apps whenever I need some originality, and the transparency/privacy guarantees are just so much stronger
I'm increasingly excited about using the OLMo based apps for daily use - I find the playground genuinely better than the commercial apps whenever I need some originality, and the transparency/privacy guarantees are just so much stronger
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We wrote about this in thecon.ai: with enterprise deals, employees will be initially highly encouraged to use synthetic text generation machines. But at some point, it'll become required to justify the cost.
April 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
We wrote about this in thecon.ai: with enterprise deals, employees will be initially highly encouraged to use synthetic text generation machines. But at some point, it'll become required to justify the cost.
Reposted by Yacine Jernite
AB 566 has officially passed out of the committee in the CA Assembly! 🎉 This bill ensures that web browsers & mobile OS vendors provide a simple, automated way for users to send opt-out signals—closing a loophole in CA privacy law. A huge step toward meaningful data rights!
📢 Today, the California Assembly will hold a hearing on AB 566 — a bill requiring web browser & mobile operating system vendors to incl. a setting that enables users to send automated signals indicating that they wish to opt-out of sales of their personal data. cdt.org/insights/mea...
Meaningful Opt-Out Rights Require Companies to Do Their Part. State Governments Might Have to Make Them.
Update: CDT submitted a letter on March 7, 2025 to the California State Assembly’s Committee on Consumer Protection in support of AB 566, which requires vendors of web browsers and mobile operating systems to include a setting that enables users to send an automated signal to businesses with which they interact through their browser or […]
cdt.org
April 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
AB 566 has officially passed out of the committee in the CA Assembly! 🎉 This bill ensures that web browsers & mobile OS vendors provide a simple, automated way for users to send opt-out signals—closing a loophole in CA privacy law. A huge step toward meaningful data rights!
One of the reasons it's so hard to easily debunk the most outlandish claims on "loss of control" risks is the lack of self-consistency - e.g. same labs showing model outputs are NOT "human thinking" and still doubling down on calling the phenomenon "deception" 🙃
www.anthropic.com/research/rea...
www.anthropic.com/research/rea...
Reasoning models don't always say what they think
Research from Anthropic on the faithfulness of AI models' Chain-of-Thought
www.anthropic.com
April 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
One of the reasons it's so hard to easily debunk the most outlandish claims on "loss of control" risks is the lack of self-consistency - e.g. same labs showing model outputs are NOT "human thinking" and still doubling down on calling the phenomenon "deception" 🙃
www.anthropic.com/research/rea...
www.anthropic.com/research/rea...
Reposted by Yacine Jernite
📢 Today, the California Assembly will hold a hearing on AB 566 — a bill requiring web browser & mobile operating system vendors to incl. a setting that enables users to send automated signals indicating that they wish to opt-out of sales of their personal data. cdt.org/insights/mea...
Meaningful Opt-Out Rights Require Companies to Do Their Part. State Governments Might Have to Make Them.
Update: CDT submitted a letter on March 7, 2025 to the California State Assembly’s Committee on Consumer Protection in support of AB 566, which requires vendors of web browsers and mobile operating systems to include a setting that enables users to send an automated signal to businesses with which they interact through their browser or […]
cdt.org
April 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
📢 Today, the California Assembly will hold a hearing on AB 566 — a bill requiring web browser & mobile operating system vendors to incl. a setting that enables users to send automated signals indicating that they wish to opt-out of sales of their personal data. cdt.org/insights/mea...