AI companies often frame image uploads as temporary inputs. What happens to those images after that interaction ends, however, can be far more unclear. There are risks in uploading images to AI, due to technical vulnerabilities, inconsistent and unclear policies from AI companies, and the unknown uses down the line.
“It’s important to avoid uploading photos that you want to make sure nobody but you ever looks at,” says Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, a senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital-rights advocacy group. But the reality is that too many AI users (just like internet users) assume a certain level of privacy that actually might not be there.
Hoffman-Andrews says users should think of AI chatbots as another place where your images live, similar to iCloud or Google Photos, but with additional risks. The most basic of those risks is security. Like those other places, AI chatbots can be hacked and user accounts can be compromised.
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