By Annalise Kempen
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February is not only the “month of love” when Valentine’s Day is celebrated. If you are on social media, especially Facebook and TikTok, your timeline is likely to have been flooded by friends and family who “fell hook, line and sinker” for the caricature trend.
From caricature to pocket-sized doll image
Copilot describes the “caricature trend” on social media as “a viral movement where people use AI tools (especially ChatGPT combined with image-generation platforms) to turn their photos into personalised cartoon-style caricatures”. Individuals are not the only ones climbing on this bandwagon. I have spotted various companies and even schools that have used these AI tools to create caricatures of their staff members.
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[This is only an extract of an article published in Servamus: March 2026. This article is available for purchase.]