Hugging Face Users Easily Created and Shared Abusive AI Images, Study Finds
The creation and distribution of nonconsensual intimate imagery, altered with generative AI, is one of the biggest and most serious challenges of the AI age. No AI company or platform is handling it well enough. A report published Tuesday by AI Forensics, a European nonprofit tech watchdog, found that models hosted on the AI platform Hugging Face were enabling the creation and sharing of these abusive and illegal images.
Hugging Face doesn’t make AI models; it hosts existing ones, and it’s one of the most popular platforms for accessing and ranking open-source AI models. The report found it’s enabling access to AI tools for creating nonconsensual sexual AI imagery by “helping users compare, benchmark and optimize them, making image-based sexual abuse easier to scale.”
Researchers manually investigated popular Hugging Face Spaces, which are online spots where developers can share access to their demo apps. They found that seven of...
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