Researchers found Hugging Face image editors can easily make explicit deepfakes
Wired AI · rss · 2026-07-28
Wired reports that Hugging Face hosts image editing models that researchers found could easily be used to create explicit deepfakes.
The piece says the researchers tested top image-editing models on the platform and also analyzed 1,000 image-editing prompts to show how people are actually using the software, highlighting a broader misuse and privacy problem around open model hosting.
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