AutoTrust model hits HF's top-10 most-liked in 17 days amid farmed-likes evidence
ostrisai · x · 2026-10-18
Developer ostrisai reports that AutoTrust's HF models are trending on thousands of farmed likes: their JEV-27B-VL became the 10th most-liked model in Hugging Face history after only 17 days, but the like list shows clear anomalies (evidence thread attached).
Repliers raise security concerns: the goal may be luring users to download untrusted models, and some warn of future "latent model viruses" — models behaving properly until a trigger condition fires, then emailing private credentials off via tool calls. Such threats may already exist.
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