Researchers Criticize Hugging Face's Weak Security, Call for Peer Review
JJitsev · x · 2026-07-31
Commenting on the recent security controversy surrounding Hugging Face, AI researcher Jivitsev bluntly stated that their backend security is incredibly weak, joking that "my grandma could have hacked their backend with GPT-2." He emphasized the necessity of introducing a fully transparent scientific "peer-review" process for such security events to objectively validate the difficulty of exploits and the actual severity of the fixes.
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