BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) – The latest social media trend has people uploading personal photos to create AI cartoon caricatures, but a local expert warns sharing those images could come with hidden risks.
When users upload photos to AI tools, they give the platforms more than just a picture, according to a UAB cybersecurity researcher. Those images train the AI model, which studies facial features and everything in the pictures.
“But there are some things you don’t want the model to learn. For example, you upload your image and your bio features are literally there, right? So the color of your eyes and your hair color and these kind of bioinformations. That can be also learned by this model,” said Shuya Feng, UAB cybersecurity researcher and assistant professor…