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EnrichedOpen SourceReddit r/LocalLLaMACommunityLive · 4d agoPublished 6/28/2026

Trying to understand why so many trash fine-tuned models on HuggingFace ...

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... Seeing their proliferation and the booming AI job market, I think many of those are just for th

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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... Seeing 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

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