AutoTrust's HF models hit top trending with 5.7K likes in 17 days — accounts look farmed
realmrfakename · x · 2026-10-18
Developer realmrfakename published an analysis suggesting AutoTrust's Hugging Face models are being pushed up the trending page with bot-farmed likes. Their JEV-27B-VL model racked up 5.7K+ likes in 17 days, becoming the 10th most-liked model in HF history; 3,372 of those likes (60%+) arrived in just the first four days, averaging 335 likes/day.
- Fake account patterns: randomly generated realistic names, AI-written generic bios, linked X/GitHub/Bluesky profiles that don't exist or don't match, plus tiny decoy fake models to look legit.
- Statistical comparison: vs. models from Google, Meta and HF itself, likers of AutoTrust repos show 63% accounts under 30 days old, 95% created within 60 days of the repo, 89% with no followers or orgs, and 29% word-for-word duplicated bios (0-2% on well-known repos).
- Conclusion: the author says botting is nearly certain, though can't definitively prove AutoTrust itself is behind it.
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