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Ghibli trend or Ghibli trap: Is OpenAI turning your personal images into free AI training repository?
- The Ghibli-style portrait trend has raised concerns about OpenAI potentially using personal images for AI training without explicit consent.
- There is a debate on whether OpenAI is collecting free, high-quality visual data through this viral trend to enhance its AI models.
- Voluntarily uploaded images bypass legal restrictions on web-scraped images, allowing OpenAI to gather data with implied user consent.
- Privacy experts warn that users freely uploading images are granting OpenAI more freedom to collect data without facing legal obstacles.
- OpenAI retains both the raw and altered data from Ghibli-style transformations, potentially improving its AI training capabilities.
- Cybersecurity groups caution users about the risks of uploading personal data to AI platforms, emphasizing the importance of privacy.
- OpenAI's privacy policy indicates that personal data input by users is collected for training AI models unless users actively opt out.
- AI models rely on vast visual data to achieve human-level intelligence, prompting OpenAI to seek user-generated images for training.
- OpenAI may use viral visual trends like the Ghibli generator to acquire millions of images for AI training at no cost.
- While Ghibli-style AI portraits are entertaining, there are concerns that users may unknowingly contribute to OpenAI's data collection agenda.
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