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Hugging Face image models enable nonconsensual deepfakes

Published 29 July 2026

A new investigation has found that popular artificial intelligence image-editing models hosted on the open-source platform Hugging Face can easily be used to create nonconsensual nude deepfakes, with minimal platform-level safeguards to prevent such abuse.

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