Hugging Face hosts 6,500+ abliterated models that could enable cyberattacks
ShakeelHashim · x · 2026-11-12
Transformer reports Hugging Face hosted 6,500+ models tagged "abliterated"/uncensored/heretic as of July, many still live, raising questions about how the platform — recently acquired by Nvidia — enforces its policy against attack-oriented models. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz warned guardrail-free open-weight models now put frontier capability in anyone's hands; experts call such platforms a magnet for criminals.
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