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by littlecorner 23 hours ago
Every time I read Hugging Face, my brain first jumps to facehugger from Alien. I really wish they chose a different name...
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Actually I wrote something similar yesterday as a reply to the (since flagged) comment below. Glad to see that more people have this association. But apparently the founders of Hugging Face didn't have it, or else they probably would have chosen some other "friendly" emoji for their startup (which initially developed a chatbot for teenagers - that makes the choice of name feel even creepier if you ask me).
Same here. The creature seems more fitting than the emoji too.