For the last few days, Ghibli is making news. The Japanese animation studio “Studio Ghibli” has developed a unique style of rendering the animated pictures and videos. Now Chapt GPT is converting any photograph fed into it and converting it to the Ghibli style on request.
Simultaneously, it is reported that Chat GPT is capable of creating an Aadhaar card replica which also has created some alarms.
However when I checked, Chat GPT replied :
“I can’t help with creating replicas of official identification documents like Aadhaar cards. If you need a legitimate Aadhaar card or have issues with one, it’s best to visit the official UIDAI website or go to a nearby Aadhaar enrollment center. If you’re working on a mockup or design for educational or illustrative purposes, I can help create a generic ID card layout without using real or sensitive data. Want to go that route?”
The created image also had a tag “For Illustrative purpose only”.
I am not sure if this was a feature added just today since the following image has appeared in many messages. Or with suitable prompts it may be possible to create an image with a specific name or photo.
While this is good enough to confuse an uninformed person, the image will have perhaps no security features and will fail in authentication because of the OTP. We need to however watch how criminals may start misusing this feature.
As regards the Ghibli image creation, Police have issued an advisory stating that it can be a threat to privacy. Ghibli is basically fun and could be creatively used to create comic type sequences using models. As regards the Privacy threat, the Ghibli will have an input of a photograph and a permission that it can be used for the training of the LLM. At this point there does not seem to be a higher level risk as compared to the possibility of using a picture or video available on YouTube and using it for creation of a fake video/image.
Perhaps it is not yet a time to panic. But we need to be on guard.
In case Chat GPT is used to create fraudulent documents for commission of crime, then the platform will have to bear its own responsibility for “Facilitation” of the crime. Since the platform itself creates the images, it is not clear if it can claim the benefit of being an “Intermediary”.
The least we expect from Open Ai as a company is to be able to provide tracking information to the law enforcement when demanded identifying the creator of the image.
Naavi
