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Opinion

The beauty is in danger

ESSENCE - Ligaya Rabago - Visaya - The Freeman

On the surface, seeing pictures of my Facebook friends who appear young, vibrant, and renewed makes me feel incredibly joyful. When I use a piece of software that has quickly become a "friend" to many, I find it impossible to resist the need to do the same for myself in order to see how I look.

It is AI Photolab, a piece of software or an application that manipulates and improves digital photos using artificial intelligence. To enhance a photo's quality and make it more visually appealing, it can automatically change the color, brightness, contrast, and other factors. In order to produce diverse artistic styles, AI Photolab can also add a variety of effects and filters to images, such as vintage, black and white, or oil painting. Using machine learning techniques, certain AI Photolab software can even create realistic-looking photographs from scratch.

Why does it worry some people, such as the Philippines' defense commander who forbade military personnel from using AI photo generator applications because they pose serious security risks? Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. has ordered staff of the Department of National Defense and Armed Forces of the Philippines not to use artificial intelligence photo-generating programs in a memo order dated October 14. The Defense secretary discussed the privacy and security issues that these apps may present.

Significant privacy and security hazards are associated with the popular online digital application that uses AI and requests that users upload at least ten images of themselves in order to create an upgraded portrait. This application gathers information from users and develops a digital person that mimics the speech and movement of a real person.

This amiable and entertaining-looking Al-powered program can be used maliciously to generate phony profiles that can lead to identity theft, phishing attempts, social engineering, and other bad things. The head of the defense said that such a case has already been reported.

It's not surprising that the artificial intelligence photo trend has landed in the Philippines and is taking off like wildfire, especially among the youth. Your social media feed is undoubtedly filled with posting AI-generated photographs of themselves.

No one likes reading the dreaded "Terms and Conditions" or "Terms of Service" page, let's face it. It is lengthy and replete with legalese jargon. When you're eager to begin using a new app or service right immediately, wading through paragraphs of complex legalese may seem like a very intimidating process. In order to quickly get to the good stuff, we frequently go straight over the "Terms of Service" page, which has the somewhat unpleasant caveat that we don't really understand what we're signing up for.

In conclusion, this suggests that Linerock Investments, the company that developed Photolab, won't be held accountable for any issues or injury that their customers may experience as a result of using their services. Users have little to no legal protection from any potential bad consequences against hackers or entities that could potentially exploit your images for their malicious goal, which includes data leaks, content problems, and service interruptions. Hackers may take our images and use them for nefarious activities including financial fraud, cyberbullying, and black-market sales.

Every action has a price in our pursuit of happiness, contentment, achievement, fulfillment, or anything else. We need to be cautious of some adverse setbacks and consequences that we are all unaware of even from the beginning.

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