UAE's Falcons AI NSFW model tops 50 million downloads on Hugging Face
UAE-based Falcon AI NSFW classifier among top global open-source models (2025)
Falcons AI, based in Ras Al Khaimah, has seen its open-source NSFW image classifier downloaded over 50.8 million times in the past 28 days, making it the sixth most-downloaded model on Hugging Face out of 1,400+. The model, a fine-tuned Vision Transformer trained on 80,000 curated images, outpaces DeepSeek's combined downloads by 12-13 times. Its success underscores growing demand for AI content moderation and the UAE's rising influence in global open-source AI.
Falcons AI has hit a sweet spot with its NSFW model, clearly appealing to a broad global audience.
- DC-3
Coincidentally I was trying this out yesterday as a potential option for automated porn filtering for the imageboard that I administrate. It is very lightweight which is good but the performance is not great. Some weird false positives and it does a bad job with flat chested women which is very concerning to me because it leads me to think it won’t be effective against CSAM.
- ggm
Always two sides to classification. Finding and Banning. It's tempting to ask if this is one, the other or both by the same people.
- londons_explore
How many people download classifiers?
The number of downloads really doesn't seem like a good way to measure the quality of a bit of work. One download could be deployed on a bit website and classify billions of users images.