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Personnes dénudées par l’IA sur Hugging Face : la haut-commissaire à l’enfance, Sarah El Haïry, saisit la Commission européenne

In response, the report’s lead researcher Paul Bouchaud noted that “deploying a feature, knowing that they do not have the means or will to moderate it, should not exempt them from responsibility for the deployment and predictable outcomes.” Read more about El Haïry's comments: tinyurl.com/mv7cybsp

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Selon l’ONG AI Forensics, sept des neuf modèles d’IA de retouche d’images les plus mis en avant par la plateforme « permettent aux utilisateurs de déshabiller des personnes à l’aide de simples prompts...

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Hugging Face told @mattburgess1.bsky.social in @wired.com that it is working to address a “gap” in safeguard adoption by some developers. The company also said that platform-wide prompt and output filtering would not be technically feasible.

In her statement to @lemonde.fr, she said: “AI can’t do everything. It certainly cannot be used to strip children, women or anyone else without their consent.”

🚨 NEW: The French High Commissioner for Children, Sarah El Haïry, has referred the findings of our report on Hugging Face to the European Commission. She also shared the findings with French regulatory agency @arcom.fr and to the reporting platform Pharos.

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🛡️ Hugging Face's own policies prohibit non-consensual intimate imagery. Yet we found virtually no safeguards preventing these tools from being used for that purpose.

• 73% of monitored requests were sexual in nature. • Of those, 83% sought to undress or sexualize a person. 95% targeted women. • 6.7% targeted a minor. If fulfilled, these requests would constitute CSAM. • Just 3% of audited Spaces showed evidence of output moderation.

Hugging Face isn't just hosting these tools. It's helping users compare, benchmark, and optimize them, making image-based sexual abuse easier to scale. 📊 By investigating the platform's most widely used Spaces and creating our own, we found 👇

AI Forensics @aiforensics.org · 22/06/2026

🔍 New Investigation: How did Hugging Face's "Spaces," a platform designed for sharing open-source AI demos, become a hub for tools capable of generating non-consensual intimate imagery? 🧵

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💬 Among other issues, “Victims should not be forced to prove, after [an] image has been created and is already circulating, that they did not authorize it.” Read the full article: www.techpolicy.press/eu-lawmakers...

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EU Lawmakers Move to Ban AI Nudifiers, but Enforcement Remains Unclear

The European Parliament today voted to ban AI nudifiers, though many EU countries still lack the authority to enforce the rules, Joana Soares reports.

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AI Forensics @aiforensics.org · 22/06/2026

Last week's EU ban on AI nudifiers was one of few positive outcomes from the "simplification" process that culminated in the Digital Omnibus package. But as our researcher Silvia Semenzin noted recently in @techpolicypress.bsky.social, a ban alone cannot be the final answer to TFGBV.

AI Forensics @aiforensics.org · 18/06/2026

As our Head of Research, Salvatore Romano, notes: "We were trying to enforce some of the principles of the DSA even before it was approved. Now, we are one of the civil society organisations contributing to making DSA enforcement possible." Read the report: limelight.foundation/articles/our...

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AI Forensics @aiforensics.org · 18/06/2026

The story covers investigations into Grok, Meta's political ads, and recommender systems' impact on youth mental health. But it also covers a less visible issue: why independent, long-term funding is essential if civil society is to keep producing key evidence for enforcement.

AI Forensics @aiforensics.org · 18/06/2026

🔎 What does it take to make platform accountability possible? Limelight Foundation's latest annual report features AI Forensics and traces our journey from Tracking Exposed to the adversarial audits that now help inform DSA enforcement.

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AI Forensics @aiforensics.org · 08/06/2026

Alongside this paper, AI Forensics published the report "No Embargo In Sight: Meta Lets Pro-Russia Propaganda Ads Flood the EU," which contributed to the evidence base that informed the European Commission’s formal investigation into Meta.

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AI Forensics @aiforensics.org · 08/06/2026

Congratulations to our researcher Dr. Paul Bouchaud, who was awarded the Innovation Prize at the @viginum.bsky.social × Inria Scientific Prize. The prize recognized the paper “Beyond Guidelines: Assessing Meta’s Political Ad Moderation in the EU,” co-authored with VIGINUM.

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✅ These recommendations will directly inform the parliamentary debate on June 4 beginning at 17h30 CET. 🎥 You can tune in here: lnkd.in/ey647HU8

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We submitted 11 recommendations to Dutch lawmakers, including: -Support algorithmic pluralism -Treat ad library functionality as a standalone compliance obligation

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Our investigation found evidence of coordinated inauthentic behaviour, widespread impersonation, ineffective political advertising enforcement, unlabelled AI-generated content, and unmoderated hate speech across major platforms, among other findings.

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AI Forensics @aiforensics.org · 20/05/2026

📢 Ahead of a June 4 Dutch parliamentary debate on social media and electoral interference, AI Forensics and the wider HEIO collective (@postxsociety.bsky.social, Trollrensics, @uva.nl) have released preliminary findings from our social media monitoring of the 2026 Dutch municipal elections. 🧵

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Heading to #TechAbuseConf in London? Thursday @ 11 BTS: Senior Researcher @silviasemenzin.bsky.social will present work building on our report on IBSA networks on Telegram. She'll explore the transformation of abusive practices, cross-platform dynamics + challenges to regulation. See you there!

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This experience highlights two things: 🤝 Direct engagement between researchers and platforms can produce concrete improvements to DSA compliance. 🛡️ Public repositories are vital for organizations like ours to continue holding platforms accountable.

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However, after sharing our findings with Snap’s DSA Compliance Team, Snap’s engineering team was able to address the rate limiting issue. ✅ A fix, deployed on April 29, led to service availability rising from almost 0% to nearly 100%. The two other issues must still be addressed.

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On Snapchat, we found: ❌ The platform’s Ad Gallery was searchable only by advertiser name. ⚠️ The repository was unavailable 99.7% of the time during the observation period. 🏷️ Commercial communications were not labeled as such on the web.

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📊 Searchable repositories are critical for the work of AI Forensics and for independent platform scrutiny in general. For example, in our earlier work on Meta, such repositories allowed us to uncover large-scale financial scam advertising and pro-Russian propaganda.

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🔎 Snapchat Ads Repository: A case study in independent auditing and platform accountability under the DSA Our latest investigation, conducted in April, found that Snapchat’s advertising transparency tools fell far short of requirements for very large online platforms under the DSA. 🧵

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Networks of Abuse, No Accountability

These are not new legislative demands. They require no new law and no new mandate. It is time for the EU to take must-needed action to halt the abuse of women and girls online. Read the full letter: aiforensics.org/work/open-le...

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On April 8, we released “Harassment as Infrastructure,” exposing large-scale abuse networks on Telegram sharing non-consensual intimate images across Italy and Spain. The CEO dismissed the findings. D...

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We also call on Member States to: -Activate cross-border enforcement coordination between national Digital Services Coordinators. -Transpose Directive (EU) 2024/1385 on combating violence against women and domestic violence into national law.

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In the letter, we ask that the EC: -Clarify Telegram’s legal status and designate it as a Very Large Online Platform. -Ban nudifying bots on Telegram. -Establish clear legal criteria for classifying semi-public spaces within messaging applications like Telegram.

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Alongside a group of 80+ organizations and experts representing working at the front line of technology-facilitated gender-based violence, we are publishing an open letter asking the European Commission to take action.

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And just two days ago, Ofcom opened an investigation into Telegram under the Online Safety Act. The EU must follow suit. 🚨

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Our report came no less than two weeks after a @cnn.com investigation exposed a “global rape academy,” which had also been linked to Telegram groups and channels where abusers coordinate and sell illegal substances used to incapacitate women and share videos of rape.

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What they failed to mention? ⚠️ Our findings: -Networks involving nearly 25,000 active usersacross Italy and Spain -Spreading and monetizing non-consensual intimate images (NCII), including sexual deepfakes and “spy cam” content -This included child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

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On April 8, we released "Harassment as Infrastructure,” detailing widespread networks of abuse against women and girls on Telegram. In response, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov accused the EU of pushing for “surveillance and censorship” via “controlled NGOs and media.” 🧵👇

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And just two days ago, Ofcom opened an investigation into Telegram under the Online Safety Act. The EU must follow suit. 🚨

Our report came no less than two weeks after a CNN investigation exposed a “global rape academy,” which had also been linked to Telegram groups and channels where abusers coordinate and sell illegal substances used to incapacitate women and share videos of rape.

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Stronger regulation is essential. Among other things, the European Commission should designate Telegram as a VLOP under the Digital Services Act (DSA). Read the full report: aiforensics.org/work/telegra...

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These findings underscore the need for a holistic response to the proliferation of image-based sexual abuse (IBSA), addressing both broader societal dynamics that have normalized misogyny and the platform design choices that have enabled it.

On Telegram, risks are amplified by: • Moderation choices • Reporting mechanisms • Selective enforcement of policies • Premium features enabling monetization

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