India, Sept. 11 -- Chances are that you have also joined the latest ChatGPT trend that has people turning their personal photographs into retro-looking images inspired by the 1980s. From vintage hairstyles and outfits to old-school colours and film-like textures, users increasingly catching on the trend to AI-generate 80s' versions of themselves.

But as the trend goes viral, it also raises a familiar question - how safe is it to upload a personal photograph, particularly one showing your face, to an AI chatbot?

Privacy concerns around AI-generated images are not new. Earlier viral trends, including the ChatGPT Ghibli-style as well as caricature image craze, have been among the times that prompted cybersecurity and privacy experts to war...