Soft-launching your beau with a ‘Ghibli-fied’ image: User says same AI can reverse-engineer it to original. But can it?

If you’ve recently hopped on the Ghibli AI trend, turning yourself and your loved ones into whimsical anime characters, you might want to hit delete—fast. A viral Threads post has sparked panic among netizens, revealing that the same AI that transforms your selfies into Miyazaki-style masterpieces might also be able to reverse the process and recover your original images.

The cryptic post warned users:

“Delete your Ghibli filter pics ASAP. Someone reverse-engineered the viral Ghibli filter and discovered you can extract the ORIGINAL photos. The…