Diwali Cards from ChatGPT: The Diwali of 2025 is just around the corner, bringing forth an avalanche of people on AI platforms like ChatGPT to craft personalized greeting cards. From festive motifs of diyas and lanterns as backdrops to full-blown graffiti-like filters, the experience could not be more chic and modern. However, the growing tide of personal photographs shared with AI tools has created an important question: what amount of privacy are users unwittingly trading away for creativity?
The latest in the so-called AI Saree Trend that was creating a storm on social media, where every other person would submit his photo and get a retro saree portrait of himself using Gemini AI by Google. It started off as an innocent whim slowly turned sour. People began noticing some truly nonsensical things that they had in their edits; for one, the AI would add or change an item or attribute in their face, which either was nonexistent or not there.
The hype raised very serious questions about whether AI really is in the position to change such personal photos and whether or not so subtle, digital manipulation can breach privacy. Despite companies like Google maintaining that such images are not used for model training, nor does the internet engage in exercising invisible watermarks over AI-generated output, experts opinionate that these tricks are less than fool-proof initiatives against misuse. The saree phenomenon was a telltale of how very minimal-looking edits can generate maximum outcomes in unpredictability.
Thus, if you would be getting Diwali cards made from pictures through ChatGPT and other AI tools, consider yourself well-digitalized:
Select your photos judiciously. No close-ups or surroundings should identify them.
Strip metadata. Either before upload, delete anything regarding locations or devices.
Learn about the usages policy. How does the site treat these uploads? Permanent, temporary, or whatsoever?
Keep the originals. A comparison can be made between the edits and alterations observed.
Curb on oversharing. Limit till where you send or post the final card.
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AI applications such as ChatGPT can quickly transform memories into a piece of artwork; it can yet be a good experience for users to remain cautiously optimistic. The saree trend incident has underscored that privacy-technology intersections do not often yield straightforward consequences. Maximize creativity with AI but align it with awareness and sharing with thought.
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