At the start of April, an influx of action figures started appearing on social media sites including LinkedIn and X. OpenAI’s ChatGPT image generator can also create pictures in the style of Japanese animated film company Studio Ghibli—a trend that quickly went viral, too. The images are fun and easy to make—all you need is a free ChatGPT account and a photo. Every time you upload an image to ChatGPT, you’re potentially handing over “an entire bundle of metadata,” says Tom Vazdar, area chair for cybersecurity at Open Institute of Technology. However, under OpenAI’s current privacy policy, images submitted through ChatGPT can be retained and used to improve its models.