{"id":81182,"date":"2025-06-27T14:47:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T21:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/?p=81182"},"modified":"2025-06-27T14:47:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T21:47:46","slug":"hugging-face-florent-daudens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/internet-culture\/interviews\/hugging-face-florent-daudens\/","title":{"rendered":"At Hugging Face, a former journalist helps make AI more accessible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Florent,<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Here at Mozilla, we are the first to admit the internet isn\u2019t perfect, but we know the internet is pretty darn magical. The internet opens up doors and opportunities, allows for human connection, and lets everyone find where they belong \u2014 their corners of the internet. We all have an internet story worth sharing. In <\/em>My Corner Of The Internet<\/em><\/a>, we talk with people about the online spaces they can\u2019t get enough of, the sites and forums that shaped them, and how they would design their own corner of the web.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We caught up with Florent Daudens, who led digital innovation in Canadian newsrooms before becoming press lead at <\/em>Hugging Face<\/em><\/a>, the <\/em>open-source<\/em><\/a> AI community. He talks about shaping his feeds to feel more like home, his move from journalism to AI, and why the best way to understand new tech is to start making things.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is your favorite corner of the internet?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

That rare, quiet part of the internet that actually makes you smarter without making you feel behind. For me, it\u2019s a mix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LinkedIn surprised me. I used to think of it as stiff and self-promotional, but it\u2019s become where I exchange ideas with people wrestling with the same big questions: What\u2019s AI doing to journalism? What\u2019s worth building?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[X] is still very relevant for everything related to AI news. It\u2019s where I get pulled into weird, fascinating rabbit holes. Someone posts a half-broken agent demo or a wild paper, and suddenly I have 12 tabs open. It\u2019s chaotic in the best way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Hugging Face of course, to keep pace with AI releases!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think what changed everything was narrowing my feeds. Once I stopped trying to follow everything and leaned into what really matters to me \u2013 AI, openness, news and creative industries \u2013 it all started to feel like home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is an internet deep dive that you can’t wait to jump back into?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My YouTube recommendations read like a personality test I didn\u2019t mean to take:<\/p>\n\n\n\n