Botting AutoTrust to HF trending: solving hCaptcha at scale can't be cheap
realmrfakename · x · 2026-10-18
realmrfakename concludes that someone is almost certainly botting AutoTrust's models and spaces to the top of Hugging Face's trending lists, though AutoTrust itself can't be confirmed as the culprit.
He notes that generating thousands of accounts, solving hCaptcha and AWS WAF, and creating the fake model pages can't be cheap at this scale — and invites AutoTrust to respond.