Hugging Face hosts nudification tools targeting US lawmakers, judges and ex-Trump officials
ShakeelHashim · x · 2026-09-03
A Transformer investigation found a Hugging Face user hosting over a dozen nudification tools explicitly built to generate deepfake nudes of senior US political figures, including a former Trump cabinet official, sitting members of Congress, and a top judge, with most targets being women close to the Republican Party. The exposure lands just as HF CEO Clément Delangue lobbied Washington on open-source AI.
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