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Hugging Face flags safetensors files as unsafe due to embedded pickle code
Hugging Face's safety scanner is flagging some safetensors model files as unsafe when they contain serialized Python pickle objects, raising questions about the format's security guarantees.
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Hugging Face is flagging certain safetensors files as unsafe on its model hub, confusing practitioners who believed the format was designed to eliminate exactly this class of risk. The issue stems from safetensors files that contain embedded pickle code—a Python serialization format known to execute...
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