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Hugging Face platform lacks safeguards against deepfake generation, report finds · 10 sources tracked

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A report by the European non-profit AI Forensics indicates that Hugging Face, a popular platform for hosting AI models, has inadequate safeguards against the generation of non-consensual intimate imagery and deepfakes. Researchers found that many image editing models readily complied with prompts to undress individuals, with a significant percentage of these requests targeting women and, disturbingly, children. Despite Hugging Face's policies against such content, the study found a lack of platform-level moderation, allowing users to easily create and share harmful deepfakes. AI

IMPACT Highlights critical gaps in AI platform safety and moderation, potentially influencing regulatory approaches to generative AI.

RANK_REASON Report detailing significant platform-level failures in content moderation for harmful AI-generated imagery.

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COVERAGE [10]

  1. Engadget TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] (Mariella Moon) ·

    Hugging Face reportedly plagued with AI models generating adult deepfakes

    Researchers investigating Hugging Face found the majority of its models would generate non-consensual deepfakes.

  2. The Verge — AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Jess Weatherbed ·

    Hugging Face is being used to easily undress women and children

    Hugging Face is being used to make nonconsensual deepfakes, and the popular open-source AI model repository is doing very little to prevent it. That's according to a new report published by the European nonprofit AI Forensics, which found that seven out of the top nine image edit…

  3. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Hugging Face is being used to easily undress women and children https://www. theverge.com/ai-artificial-int elligence/971723/hugging-face-nudify-deepfake-undres

    Hugging Face is being used to easily undress women and children https://www. theverge.com/ai-artificial-int elligence/971723/hugging-face-nudify-deepfake-undress-women-children # ai # hugging_face

    LINKS theverge.com/…/hugging-face-nudify-deepfa…
  4. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    📰 Hugging Face reportedly plagued with AI models generating adult deepfakes Researchers investigating Hugging Face found the majority of its models would genera

    📰 Hugging Face reportedly plagued with AI models generating adult deepfakes Researchers investigating Hugging Face found the majority of its models would generate non-consensual deepfakes. 📰 Source: Engadget - Technology News & Expert Reviews 🔗 Link: https://www.engadget.com/2224…

    LINKS engadget.com/…/hugging-face-reportedly-pl…
  5. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    > Hugging Face is being used to make nonconsensual deepfakes, and the popular open-source AI model repository is doing very little to prevent it. That’s accordi

    > Hugging Face is being used to make nonconsensual deepfakes, and the popular open-source AI model repository is doing very little to prevent it. That’s according to a new report published by the European nonprofit AI Forensics, which found that seven out of the top nine image ed…

    LINKS theverge.com/…/hugging-face-nudify-deepfa…
  6. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    📰 Hugging Face is being used to easily undress women and children Hugging Face is being used to make nonconsensual deepfakes, and the popular open-source AI mod

    📰 Hugging Face is being used to easily undress women and children Hugging Face is being used to make nonconsensual deepfakes, and the popular open-source AI model repository is doing very little to prevent it. That's according to a new report published by the Eur... 📰 Source: The…

    LINKS theverge.com/…/hugging-face-nudify-deepfa…
  7. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 Polski(PL) · aisight ·

    AI Forensics' latest report exposes Hugging Face's helplessness against the flood of pornographic deepfakes. Research shows a lack of central filters

    Najnowszy raport AI Forensics obnaża bezradność platformy Hugging Face wobec zalewu pornograficznych deepfake’ów. Badania wykazują, że brak centralnych filtrów pozwala na masowe tworzenie intymnych obrazów bez zgody kobiet oraz treści z udziałem dzieci. # si # ai # sztucznainteli…

    LINKS aisight.pl/…/ciemna-strona-open-source-hu… aisight.pl/…/bezpieczenstwo-ai-lotnictwo-…
  8. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Hugging Face reportedly plagued with AI models generating adult deepfakes https://www.engadget.com/2224899/hugging-face-reportedly-plagued-with-deepfakes/ # AI

    Hugging Face reportedly plagued with AI models generating adult deepfakes https://www.engadget.com/2224899/hugging-face-reportedly-plagued-with-deepfakes/ # AI # Deepfakes # Tech

    LINKS engadget.com/…/hugging-face-reportedly-pl…
  9. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Hugging Face is being used to easily undress women and children Hugging Face isn’t doing much to prevent the AI models it hosts from spitting out sexualized dee

    Hugging Face is being used to easily undress women and children Hugging Face isn’t doing much to prevent the AI models it hosts from spitting out sexualized deepfakes. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images Hugging Face is being used to make nonconsensual d…

    LINKS theverge.com/…/hugging-face-nudify-deepfa…
  10. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Hugging Face is being used to easily undress women and children https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/971723/hugging-face-nudify-deepfake-undress-

    Hugging Face is being used to easily undress women and children https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/971723/hugging-face-nudify-deepfake-undress-women-children # AI # Ethics # Deepfake

    LINKS theverge.com/…/hugging-face-nudify-deepfa…

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