"The trend itself is simple. Users input a common prompt: "Create a caricature of me and my job based on everything you know about me," and upload a photo of themself, and, voila! ChatGPT (or any AI-image platform) spits out an over-the-top, cartoon-style image of you, your job, and anything else it's learned about you. This ability is predicated on a robust ChatGPT (or other AI) chat history."
"It's not the first AI image trend. Other social media challenges have had users posting themselves as AI-generated cartoons, Renaissance paintings, or fantasy characters. AI's image capabilities have gone in a few different directions. Some of them, like with this trend, or the meme-ification of Sora, are seemingly harmless fun. However, Sora has started to see issues with bad-faith individuals being able to create AI deepfakes (see also: Grok porn)."
Users create AI-generated caricatures by uploading a photo and prompting models with lines like "Create a caricature of me and my job based on everything you know about me." The systems produce exaggerated, cartoon-style images that combine user photos, inferred job details, and information drawn from chat histories. The process relies on robust chat history, so users with limited history must provide extra details for accurate depictions. The trend follows prior AI image challenges such as cartoons, Renaissance, and fantasy transformations. Emerging issues include potential privacy exposure, bad-faith deepfakes like those seen with Sora, and service outages affecting many users.
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