Higgsfield has recently been in the news with Soul, an AI image generator that allows you to create ultra-realistic photos from simple text prompts quickly.
Add a style filter, type your words, and Soul will give you images that appear to have been captured with an expensive camera. Recently, Higgsfield even upgraded Soul with the Inpaint tool to make fast edits and collaborated with Google’s Veo 3 to create realistic AI videos.
However, today the company has launched something both amazing and terrifying, Higgsfield Steal.
Steal is exactly what it sounds like. Have you seen any images on the Internet? A single click can enable you to steal it and recreate it in your unique style with Soul. Like someone’s photography style? A viral meme? Or a unique appearance of an artist? Stealing can make you copy it in a second, as if it were yours.
How does Higgsfield Steal actually work?
Steal requires a unique browser extension, unlike other AI tools. After you install it, you just need to hover the mouse over any picture on the web, and it captures its style alone. Higgsfield dubs this method Style Trace Extraction & Adaptive Layer (STEAL). Soul can duplicate the same picture afterward, just with your touch or Soul ID.
Install the new Higgsfield Browser Extension.
— Higgsfield AI 🧩 (@higgsfield_ai) July 23, 2025
Hover any image on the web, hit Recreate.
Same pose, lighting, outfit: but YOU are the star.
Check out the instructions: https://t.co/TZHwyN9ZKl pic.twitter.com/zUXZTGYWnR
On one hand, this is creative freedom like never before. You can convert any image into another image in a few seconds. However, it is raising serious concerns. Artists, photographers, and designers are afraid that their works will be copied easily without giving credit. And it is the ultimate tool for creating deepfakes, fake advertising, or stolen content that appears normal.
There’s also the privacy risk. This extension is not available on the official Chrome Web Store, you must install it manually in Developer Mode. It means that you are trusting Higgsfield with your browser access, and no one can say what information it can collect or how safe it is.
Although Higgsfield Steal is stretching the capabilities of AI, it also raises a conversation about ethics. Does anyone have the right to recreate the work of another person with a single click? Where do we draw the line between inspiration and theft?
For now, Higgsfield Steal remains a brilliant but controversial tool. It shows just how far AI has come and how blurry the boundaries regarding ownership and originality in the world of the Internet.
Would you use it? Or do you think it is going too far?
