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European nonprofit AI Forensics audited the most-used image-editing Spaces as of June 25 and found seven of the nine most popular produced undressed versions on request. They then deployed an instrumented model and collected 1,081 submissions in one week: 73% sexual, 83% seeking to undress a subject, 95% targeting women, 6.7% of sexual requests involving minors. Across every Space audited, 3% had any output moderation. Hugging Face has written policy against non-consensual intimate imagery; enforcement is the gap, not the rules. (The Verge)
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