Have you also become like an Action Figure or the Miyazaki cartoon? Attention, it’s not free

Did you do it too? You too have transformed your photos into Ghibli studio style And have you become like Miyazaki’s cartoon? And after that, you too have made your very personal Boxing Action Figureswith your image and your heart objects on the sides?

You know well that you found yourself in good company, it was an invasion: in the last week the searches on “How to do the trend of the Barbie box” have increased by 2600% and now, everywhere, we all found ourselves beautiful inscribed. Chatgpt could not hope for better: he saw a surgered record of 1 million new users in one hour after the launch of this new functionality with Chatgpt 4.0, capable of transforming everyone into these funny formats.

Here, as it happens more and more often, this game is not “free”, in some way, if not with money, you pay it anyway. And you pay it with your own image, with your personal data.

Christoph C. Cemper is the founder of the Prompt Management Company Aipman extension of Chrome dedicated to the creation and search for chatgpt prompts, a tool that allows you to identify the most suitable prompt according to your needs, in order to obtain a more accurate and precise response from AI. In short, he is one who knows a lot of artificial intelligence and intervened to reveal the risks hidden behind these last tendencies, revealing the potential copyright problems as well as a series of privacy concerns.

“Your face becomes a data”

And it is he, Christoph C. Cemper, to explain that «qUaando I load a photo on an IA art generator, you are yielding your biometric data (your face). Some IA tools store those data, use them to train future models or even sell them to third parties – all often without you being fully aware of it, unless the terms of use are carefully read ».

Chatgpt memorizes your data? Yes. “Openai’s privacy policy clearly specifies that two types of data is collected: the information provided (personal data such as name, email, photos or loaded images) and information automatically collected (device data, use data, registers)”.

“Your image could feed the DeepFake epidemic”

«Once loaded, your facial data become vulnerable to improper uses. The images shared on IA platforms can be copied, disseminated or used to create deepfakes, identity theft scams or impersonifications in false content. You could, without wanting to, deliver a digital version of yourself that can be manipulated in unpredictable ways ».

“You could find yourself in a legal mined field for copyright”

«Creating art with ia in the style of iconic brands such as Barbie, Studio Ghibli, Disney, Pixar or the Simpsons may seem like harmless fun, but could break copyright laws. These distinctive artistic styles are protected as intellectual properties, and replicating them too faithfully can be considered plagiarism. Some artists have already taken legal actions on the matter. Already at the end of 2022, three artists fought a class action against several IA companies, claiming that their images of images were trained using original works without authorization. With the technology that advances more quickly than the law, it is necessary to find a balance between innovation and the protection of artists’ rights “.

“You could give more rights than images”

«Many platforms hide wide and generic contractual clauses in terms of use, allowing themselves very extensive permits to reproduce, modify and even trade commercially the content you load. This means that your image – or its versions generated with the IA – could end up in advertising campaigns, datasets or in future training models. Attention must be paid to terms such as “transferable rights”, “non-exclusive”, “royalty-free”, “sublical rights” and “irrevocable license”-these expressions can grant the platforms the unlimited use of your image, even after you have eliminated the app “.