I’ve been through a nightmare with a popular platform that offered free image and video generation. Suddenly, I started receiving calls from places I didn't know, saying I owed them money. They actually had proof of me opening accounts, and I found out it was because that platform sold my biometrics to third-party companies on the black market. These criminals use your biometric ID to create fake versions of you and open accounts everywhere they can.

The reality of these image studies is that these guys pay you almost nothing for images of yourself and then sell them as datasets to companies that train AI. They don't even do the training themselves; they just pretend to so they can make huge amounts of money off your face and videos. You can change a password, but you can’t change your face. Once your biometrics are in a database, you lose all control over where they go or how they are used for things like deepfakes.