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  "title": "Trying to understand why so many trash fine-tuned models on HuggingFace ...",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1ui7xoj/trying_to_understand_why_so_many_trash_finetuned/",
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  "upload_date": "20260628",
  "published_at": "2026-06-28T20:31:23+00:00",
  "transcript": "The majority of these models do not perform even as well as the base model, not even worth wasting the disk space on HuggingFace server, Qwhoppass-27B-Mother-Ultimate-Lord, whatever...\n\nSeeing their proliferation and the booming AI job market, I think many of those are just for the authors scamming their ways into high paying AI positions. Just say you have a fine-tuned model on HuggingFace is the new street cred for \"I have Github projects\" a few years ago.\n\nWhat other causes did I miss ?\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[108 upvotes] While you may be right, once we start choosing which models are allowed on hugging face, then what makes us different than the government that chooses which models are fit for regular companies to use? \n\nGovernment says \"this model is too good for the masses\"\n\nYour say \"this model is too crappy for the masses\"\n\nI see no difference here. Censorship is Censorship.\n\n[86 upvotes] Because people think they’re doing something cool by fine tuning on a trash dataset that says “opus” on it\n\n[50 upvotes] You get that people are literally paying out of pocket for RunPod or expensive hardware to fine-tune models and then sharing them for free, right? Maybe the model doesn't fit your exact use case, but it might nail a specific task, or someone might just be hosting it as their own storage. How exactly does that inconvenience you?\n\nWith your mentality open source/open weight would not exist...\n\n[36 upvotes] Sounds about right",
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