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Decision BriefThe VergeTue, 28 Jul 2026 09:07:14 GMT2026-07-28

Hugging Face is being used to easily undress women and children

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What happened

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 editing models hosted by

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