Kurzgesagt video on Hugging Face incident

Kurzgesagt is one of my favorite YouTube channels—their videos are thoroughly researched and well-sourced, but they’re also beautiful and delivered with a dry humor that makes them fun to watch.

They just put out a video on the recent hugging face incident that included a lot of detail and context I haven’t seen elsewhere. I’d concluded that it was likely hand-wavey marketing, but now I’m not sure what to think. There are definitely unsettling elements here, and the source is hard for me to dismiss offhand.

Putting it here for public consumption—I’m interested in what people think

https://youtu.be/ujkD4SxPKOI