For the past week, the internet has been gripped by a new obsession—transforming selfies, pet portraits, and even historical images into dreamy, hand-painted Ghibli-style art.
The craze took off when OpenAI introduced its default image generation feature for GPT-4o. Almost overnight, social media platforms were flooded with AI-generated animations of people and their pets.
But beneath the surface of this seemingly harmless trend lies a deeper concern.
“Unlike passive data collection methods, these AI applications receive high-resolution facial…