Hugging Face hosts nudification tools targeting a former Trump cabinet official and other senior US political figures
The tools are explicitly intended for generating deepfake nudes of a former Trump cabinet official, sitting members of Congress and a top American judge, a Transformer investigation found
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Published: 25 June 2026
Source: Transformer
Category: News
Topics: Misinformation · Finance, VC & PE
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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