The latest social media trend asks AI to make a caricature based on what it knows about us, but what it reveals is so much more. For the last couple of weeks, social media has been chocka with assorted lifestyle influencers, bored boomers and governing parties of Aotearoa jumping on the AI caricature trend. “We’re only at this stage with AI because we’ve been so well-trained by the social media age that our personal information and privacy doesn’t really matter to us any more,” he says. And for those who use AI as a form of therapy and a place to spill personal secrets? Darren Blomfield, caricature artist.

Source: Stuff February 20, 2026 03:51 UTC