Nice publicity stunt from the Barbie film team, on the occasion of the release of the movie trailer on April 4: the appearance of a photo generator where everyone can show themselves in the realistic movie scenery. The tool uses artificial intelligence to crop the portraits and display them in the striking colors of the famous doll.
The generator is deliberately quite easy to use, just upload your own photo, crop it, and then customize the text and color. That’s all. You can then download it and then share it.
In this way, these memes have become viral on social networks.
to be alert
However, on Twitter, technology expert Victor Baissent warns users to be vigilant with this type of imager and the data they share. He emphasizes, for example: “you never know what will happen to the photos you upload to it” and that such a site “can attract pirates”.
Specifically, it takes the example of another image generator that caused a sensation in 2021, Toon Me, which allows you to transform into a cartoon character. If the users themselves did not request the deletion of their photos, after the image was generated, it was stored for at least two weeks on the site’s servers, “imagine the site is hacked”, Víctor Bassait then stressed.
Other apps like FaceApp, which allows you to age, have also been singled out for their lack of transparency in data storage. In 2019, the specialized site TechCrunch He pointed out that the company that manages the application was given the opportunity to modify, use or exploit the retouched photo in question, before deleting it within 48 hours.
Source: BFM TV
