Large eyes, soft lines and vibrant coloring: You, too, can look like a character straight out of a Disney movie. The Voilà AI Artist app has taken social media by storm by providing users with AI-powered photo filters.

The app features four different options, including 2D or 3D cartoons, Renaissance and caricatures. It uses deep-learning artificial intelligence (AI) to turn your pictures into artwork ranging from “Pixar-inspired” characters to Renaissance-style paintings. Users can upload or take a photo, pick a mode and then save the image or upload it to social media. Voilà also has a feature that modifies images specifically of celebrities and offers a subscription service at US$3 on iOS and US$2 on Android a week, which eliminates ads.

Voilà Ai Artist is created by Wemagine.AI LLC. The app has been rated over 25,000 times in the Apple Store and even more times in Google Play. Its privacy policy is similar to most other face-changing apps, telling users that they collect data and photos uploaded to the app. Voilà says it deletes after 24 to 48 hours. However, there’s no public verification on it.

Steve Povolny, head of Advanced Threat Research and principle engineer at McAfee, says that with apps like Voilà, there are always a few privacy concerns to keep in mind.

“I think most people understand now that your face is a completely different type of identity that we weren’t used to having protected in the past,” Povolny said. “And in a lot of ways, carries at least as much, if not more, information than much of the public information that you actually subscribe to sharing.”

Povolny also noted that while people usually know of the risks associated with using apps that collect data, and specifically photos, they don’t always realize the full impacts of how that data might be used in the future.(SD-Agencies)