• Sharing fine-grained personal details could expose privacy to future risks
• Reducing uploaded data and using protective settings helps limit tracking

The internet is seeing a wide spread of caricature images generated by ChatGPT for users based on their personal information, jobs, and hobbies, after a simple prompt became enough to produce an appealing image that encourages many to join the trend.

Despite the playful nature of these images, cybersecurity experts warn that creating a caricature requires supplying artificial intelligence with large amounts of personal data, potentially meaning sensitive information is traded for participation in a temporary social-media wave—while that data may remain online for a long time.

Specialists note that users already share significant amounts of information through social networks, but combining AI tools with public posting increases the overall volume of accessible data. Uploading photos and personal details also allows platforms to collect, analyze, store, and use them to develop models, with unclear long-term uses.

Information-security experts say some users add increasingly precise details to improve image results when dissatisfied, effectively training systems with highly sensitive personal data—a behavior that could raise the risk of privacy violations or future identity theft, especially given the difficulty of guaranteeing permanent deletion once information is uploaded.

Data-protection specialists also warn against normalizing the sharing of photos and professional or personal details with AI tools without considering how such data may be stored or reused later, noting that the quality of outputs may suggest deep knowledge about a user while actually relying only on what the user provides.

Privacy policies clarify that submitted content may be used to operate and improve services and conduct research, with the possibility of sharing it with affiliated parties or service providers, while risks of copying or reposting beyond the user’s control remain once content is shared online.

By contrast, memory settings and chat-history controls allow users to reduce or stop data collection, in addition to using temporary chats where information is not stored.

Experts advise avoiding the upload of real photos or sensitive personal data, relying instead on general information and reviewing privacy settings before المشاركة.

Ultimately, creating a ChatGPT caricature may seem entertaining, but considering the consequences of data sharing remains essential—while the safest option is to limit the information provided or avoid using such features altogether.