The latest glitzy trend in Instagram is the artificial intelligence-driven saree photographs. People are transforming their basic selfies into beautiful 90s Bollywood portraits using apps such as Google Gemini. The photographs with their flowing chiffon sarees, dramatic lights, and cinematic backgrounds are a pleasant old-fashioned and hi-tech mix.
They provide an opportunity to rebrand as an old movie actor, and the outcomes are usually so stunning and realistic to an extent that they become viral the moment they are posted on social media. This movement itself is innocuous, a digital fashion experiment. If you can look under the hood, however, there exist actual and, occasionally, frightening dangers that are being taken by many users without their knowledge.
Data Privacy Concerns
Although the AI-generated images are entertaining, the result of generating them is achieved at a considerable cost to your privacy. By posting a selfie to an artificial intelligence application, you are not merely giving an image to a single edit. You are giving sensitive facial and biometric information that can be utilized to train the AI models of the company.
Once this data is provided, it can be stored, analyzed, and it can be used to enhance the capacity of the AI to identify faces and generate new content. This brings up serious questions of how the data belong to you and what becomes of your liking even after you close the app. In the era of identity theft and deepfake technology, which is getting more popular, providing this amount of personal data without explicit permission is a very real danger.
The Rise of Misinformation
Another reason why the use of generative AI to express oneself has become very widespread is that it promotes a bigger issue: the decline of trust in the digital media. The further the AI-generated images are closer to real ones, the more it becomes hard to know what is real and what is not. Such a dividend of lies can be used by bad actors who can exploit this technology to produce false information, impersonate people, or disseminate false information.
Although a saree photo may be considered an innocent post, it presents the normalization of the production of synthetic media, which helps the misleading material to spread and be accepted as true. The amusement of an AI-created portrait is soon to become a liability, not only to the person, but the whole digital ecosystem.
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A recent media graduate, Bhumi Vashisht is currently making a significant contribution as a committed content writer. She brings new ideas to the media sector and is an expert at creating strategic content and captivating tales, having working in the field from past four months.
