Hugging Face Is Hosting 5,000 Nonconsensual AI Models of Real People
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/07/15/1457229/hugging-face-is-hosting-5000-nonconsensual-ai-models-of-real-people
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> Hugging Face, a company with a multi-billion dollar valuation and one of the most commonly used platforms for sharing AI tools and resources, is hosting over 5,000 AI image generation models that are [1]designed to recreate the likeness of real people . These models were all previously hosted on Civitai, an AI model sharing platform 404 Media reporting has shown was used for creating nonconsensual pornography, until Civitai banned them due to pressure from payment processors.
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> Users downloaded the models from Civitai and reuploaded them to Hugging Face as part of a concerted community effort to archive the models after Civitai announced in May it will ban them. In that announcement, Civitai said it will give the people who originally uploaded them "a short period of time" before they were removed. Civitai users began organizing an archiving effort on Discord earlier in May after Civitai indicated it had to make content policy changes due to pressure from payment processors, and the effort kicked into high gear when Civitai announced the new "real people" model policy.
[1] https://www.404media.co/hugging-face-is-hosting-5-000-nonconsensual-ai-models-of-real-people/
God save the (Score:2)
God save the PORN.
AI can use copyright materials and so what is there to stop them from anything else?
Our society doesn't respect individuals (Score:3)
There's no right to individual identity, even though there ought to be. We don't really recognize that people are unique and that their uniqueness has intrinsic value that belongs to the individual. We live in a world where nearly anything is copied and sold, and we have to wait around for a legal framework to protect ownership. Unfortunately the people writing the laws are the people doing the stealing.
And frankly, our culture is too immature and wholly unprepared for much of the technology that has arrived this millennium. There are numerous problems that technology has caused society that we still haven't handled adequately. We either need to step up our game, or pump the brakes. Burying our head in the sand isn't an option. (how many clichéd metaphors can I mix?)
Is anyone surprised... (Score:2)
...that a business whose name evokes a movie scene where a hostile alien entity forcibly envelops and implants its offspring into an unsuspecting space merchant-marine doctor would host nonconsensual sexual content?
Re: (Score:2)
Just wait until it is revealed how many models of real people are held in the database of the TSA!