Hugging Face is being used to easily undress women and children

July 28, 2026 Jess Weatherbed

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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 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 Hugging Face readily complied with requests to undress women using simple prompts.

While most mainstream generative AI models like Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT have guardrails in place to block prompts that undress or sexualize people, that seemingly isn't the case for the models on Hugging Face tested by AI Forensics. The nonprofit says …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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