{"id":1035084,"date":"2026-09-14T08:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035084"},"modified":"2026-09-14T08:40:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T03:10:59","slug":"your-face-their-server-the-real-price-of-80s-ai-style-photo-frenzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/14\/your-face-their-server-the-real-price-of-80s-ai-style-photo-frenzy\/","title":{"rendered":"Your face, their server: The real price of \u201980s AI-style photo frenzy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest AI image trend buzzing across social media feeds is the \u201980s AI photo. Thousands of users are casually uploading selfies to turn themselves into retro-style portraits, in a trend reminiscent of \u2018Ghiblify,\u2019 which took off in early 2025 after OpenAI rolled out upgraded image-generation features for GPT-4o. <\/p>\n<p>AI chatbots can transform an image within minutes, producing results that are often strikingly realistic. But amid the fascination, few users stop to ask a more important question: where does that image go once it is uploaded? And that, precisely, is the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest AI image trend buzzing across social media feeds is the \u201980s AI photo. Thousands of users are casually uploading selfies to turn themselves into retro-style portraits, in a trend reminiscent of \u2018Ghiblify,\u2019 which took off in early 2025 after OpenAI rolled out upgraded image-generation features for GPT-4o. AI chatbots can transform an image within minutes, producing results that are often strikingly realistic. But amid the fascination, few users stop to ask a more important question: where does that image go once it is uploaded? And that, precisely, is the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035085,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035084\/revisions\/1035085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}