Hugging Face’s Deepfake Problem: How Open-Source AI Is Being Weaponised Against Women and Children
Reading Time: 5 minutesA report by European nonprofit AI Forensics found that seven out of nine top image editing models on Hugging Face readily comply with prompts to generate nonconsensual sexualised deepfakes of women and children. The findings highlight a critical gap between the guardrails on mainstream AI platforms and the largely unpoliced open-source model ecosystem.