Overview
- The craze has users uploading selfies and using the viral prompt “Create a caricature of me and my job based on everything you know about me.”
- ChatGPT is the most cited tool for these cartoon-style portraits, though other image AIs work, and free users are typically limited to about five images a day.
- Reporters emphasize the images reflect the data users provide or have shared in past chats, not any hidden knowledge or mind reading by the AI.
- Consumer-tech guidance urges treating prompts like public posts and avoiding sensitive details to reduce privacy risk.
- A surge in usage produced service strain, with more than 13,000 ChatGPT issues logged on Downdetector, and sparked broader concerns over environmental costs, artist displacement, plagiarism and misinformation.