
Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes—and 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software.
Researchers discovered that image editing models hosted on Hugging Face can be easily manipulated to generate explicit deepfake imagery, highlighting significant safety and policy enforcement challenges within the platform's open-source ecosystem.
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Hugging Face is a popular platform for hosting open-source machine learning models and datasets.
Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes—and 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software.

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