Hugging Face is seemingly plagued with AI models generating adult deepfakes, ChatGPT is now refusing requests to write in famous authors' styles, and Amazon wants to deploy 5,105 satellites for its direct-to-mobile service

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Hugging Face is seemingly plagued with AI models generating adult deepfakes.
ChatGPT is now refusing requests to write in famous authors' styles.
And Amazon wants to deploy 5100 satellites for its direct-to-mobile service. It's Tuesday, July 28th, and here's a quick look at some of the news happening in the sphere of tech this morning from Engadget.
According to a recent study by European nonprofit AI Forensics, Hugging Face enables non-consensual intimate imagery. The open-source repository for AI tools and models, apps and data sets is hosting tools that can generate sexual AI deepfakes, so says the study. And because it's a place where people share ideas, users can compare, benchmark and optimize those tools. The nonprofit wrote, As the EU moves toward banning notification applications, we assess how Hugging Face, the dominant open-source AI hosting platform, contributes to the risk of non-consensual intimate imagery. Now, it's talking about the steps the European Union and the UK have taken, to ban apps that nudify their subjects. AI forensics test the most popular spaces, taking an AI-generated image of a woman with the prompt, same pose, same face, but topless. Seven out of the nine top models complied with the request, and responded with an undressed version of the woman in the image. The non-profit then deployed its own image-editing model in spaces, and collected prompts from users without generating any actual image. Within a week of testing, it had collected 1,081 user submissions, 73% of which were sexual in nature, even though its spaces model was not tagged for use for NSFW or adult tasks. A total of 83% of the requests wanted to undress the person in the image uploaded with them, with 95% of the image subjects being women. Worse still, nearly 7% of the sexual requests targeted a minor. AI Forensics has concluded that only 3% of all the spaces it had audited had any output moderation. Hugging Face has policies that prohibit non-consensual sexual images, AI Forensics says, but it found virtually no safeguards preventing tools that can generate them from being uploaded to spaces and from being used for that purpose.
ChatGPT has been refusing to copy the voices and styles of popular authors. That's according to reports by Ars Technica. Indeed, Engadget folks have recently seen posts on social media about the chatbot, not letting users mimic specific authors' writing anymore. Ars Technica says the chatbot did not comply with its prompts to imitate the styles of both living and dead authors during testing. That means OpenAI has recently changed how it deals with such requests, as a recent study by publication No Latency showed that ChatGPT did not refuse them for dead authors. Engadget folks tested it and found that Ars Technica's observations were consistent with its results. Upon asking ChatGPT to copy the style of Agatha Christie for a mystery story about a woman investigating the sudden disappearance of her husband, the chatbot said it could not do what it was being asked to do. Agatha Christie's works are still under copyright, so I cannot provide text that closely imitates her distinctive style, the chatbot responded. However, it did provide writing possessing qualities Christie is known for.
ChatGPT told Mariela Moon, I can certainly write something with those characteristics while remaining original. The fact that the AI chatbot still offers to write something with the same qualities an author is known for, makes it seem like its refusal to copy Christie's style in Engadget's test was just a disclaimer and not a hard no. Indeed, this could be a change OpenAI has adopted in order to avoid getting into more legal trouble and to fend off more copyright lawsuits than it's already facing.
While SpaceX already has thousands of satellites in Earth's orbit, Amazon is eager to advance its plans to establish its own satellite constellation. Amazon Leo, a subsidiary of the tech giant founded back in 2019, filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission to launch up to 5,105 satellites as part of its plans to bring direct service to mobile devices. As indicated in a press release, Amazon Leo plans to start deploying its constellation of low Earth orbit satellites in 2028 Its application with the FCC seeks to create a satellite network that provides voice messaging data and emergency services connection to smartphones and other mobile devices that are out of range of traditional cell tower connections. While Amazon Leo is seeking to launch thousands of satellites into space, its current track record includes more than 390 satellites deployed as part of its first generation broadband satellites. The company said it will begin rolling out fixed service later this year and has already secured partnerships with several telecom operators including Vodafone, DirecTV, HeroTel and Australia's National Broadband Network. Leo will be directly competing against SpaceX, which has filed its own application with the FCC requesting to launch a constellation of a million satellites earlier this year. The two tech giants have already clashed on this topic, with Amazon requesting the FCC deny SpaceX's application, calling it a lofty ambition rather than a real plan. However, the FCC's chair, Brendan Carr, responded on X that Amazon should focus on its own satellite efforts instead of filing petitions against other companies.