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I’m seeing people posting pictures of themselves as AI versions of paintings and fantasy scenes and films and although the creative photographer in me loves it I would be mindful that you are handing over your face to unregulated new tech to form the basis of better recognition software, survelience tech and forming parts of how your likeness can form into other people’s creations. I don’t want to tell you what’s right or wrong, but I think it is worth knowing what your feeding your face into.