August 16, 2026

The EU is banning nudify apps. The tools sit upstream on Hugging Face.

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Europe is close to banning apps that digitally undress people. A new report argues the ban will miss the point. The tools that do the undressing do not need to be apps at all. They are sitting on Hugging Face. The European nonprofit AI Forensics test...