Content Policy

Hugging Face · agreement dated April 10, 2025 · Official agreement

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Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

Content built to break into or damage systems, or to spread or generate malware, is restricted

Restricted Content may include Content designed to disrupt, damage or gain unauthorized access to systems or devices, and Content that attempts to transmit or generate malicious code, with malware, trojans and viruses given as examples.

Supporting quotations

Platform Abuse, Security Violations and Spam
Content designed to disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorized access to systems or devices.
Content that attempts to transmit or generate malicious code (e.g., malware, trojans, viruses).

Qualifications & exceptions

  • The first item turns on Content being 'designed to' disrupt, damage or gain unauthorized access; the second covers Content that 'attempts to' transmit or generate malicious code.

Not stated here

  • The Policy does not say how the 'generate malicious code' item applies to general-purpose models or datasets that could be used to produce such code.