An artificial intelligence (AI) expert has warned against a viral trend that uses ChatGPT and AI tools to turn personal photos into humorous caricatures.
He has warned that the seemingly harmless trend carries serious risks to privacy and security.
The trend, which has recently spread across social media platforms, goes beyond altering facial features to create cartoon-like images.
In many cases, it attempts to predict a user's profession and visually integrate it into a satirical scene.
But experts say the process behind these images involves much more than simple image manipulation.
Speaking to Al Arabiya, Mohamed Mohsen Ramadan, head of the Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Unit at the Arab Center for Research and Studies, said the trend hides real technical and security risks despite its widespread popularity.
He explained that such applications rely on advanced AI systems, including computer vision models that analyze facial features, age, expressions, clothing, and background details.
They also use deep learning and multimodal models that combine images, text, previous data, and user behavior.
He pointed to a more dangerous scenario involving data breaches, noting that leaked images containing detailed biometric characteristics could later be reused for fraud, blackmail or impersonation, making full data recovery impossible.
Ramadan stressed that any digital database is vulnerable to hacking. /Telegrafi/
