{"id":210839,"date":"2026-02-06T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/ai-caricature-trend-poses-privacy-risks-cybersecurity-expert-warns\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T00:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:00:13","slug":"ai-caricature-trend-poses-privacy-risks-cybersecurity-expert-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/ai-caricature-trend-poses-privacy-risks-cybersecurity-expert-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"AI caricature trend poses privacy risks, cybersecurity expert warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbrc.com\/2026\/02\/07\/ai-caricature-trend-poses-privacy-risks-cybersecurity-expert-warns\/\">AI caricature trend poses privacy risks, cybersecurity expert warns<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbrc.com\/2026\/02\/07\/ai-caricature-trend-poses-privacy-risks-cybersecurity-expert-warns\/\">https:\/\/www.wbrc.com\/2026\/02\/07\/ai-caricature-trend-poses-privacy-risks-cybersecurity-expert-warns\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-06 23:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wbrc.com\">www.wbrc.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cBut there are some things you don\u2019t 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,\u201d said Shuya Feng, UAB cybersecurity researcher and assistant professor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The information is often used to access bank accounts or medical records on phones. Images uploaded to an AI model always have the possibility to be leaked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">That puts users at risk of having their image used for deepfakes or identity theft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There is a simple and effective way to protect personal data. Users can opt out of data sharing with AI models.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe quick suggestion is that you don\u2019t share the information with the model. So even you use the AI services, there is an option that I don\u2019t want to share my data with the model, with the model training,\u201d Feng said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For ChatGPT users, click on the profile icon, select settings and go to data controls. Click on \u201cImprove the model for everyone\u201d and turn that off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIf you don\u2019t want to share your data with the model, they won\u2019t learn anything from you. They won\u2019t collect the data. So even they are in the chat history, but the model won\u2019t learn anything from there,\u201d Feng said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Popular models like ChatGPT take steps to protect user privacy, but experts suggest turning off data sharing if users don\u2019t want their information shared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Even with data sharing turned off, users should never provide personal details or pictures that show their&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbrc.com\/2026\/02\/07\/ai-caricature-trend-poses-privacy-risks-cybersecurity-expert-warns\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI caricature trend poses privacy risks, cybersecurity expert warns https:\/\/www.wbrc.com\/2026\/02\/07\/ai-caricature-trend-poses-privacy-risks-cybersecurity-expert-warns\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-06 23:05:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gray-wbrc-prod.gtv-cdn.com\/resizer\/v2\/R4GR7ICPPJFQNN7PZIVBSUCRIQ.jpg?auth=8659032380e8674aaa4004c92622b459fbc5bd4cec81ee2de3a0d01615e2b614&width=1200&height=600&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-210839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210841,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210839\/revisions\/210841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}