Comment on this story Comment If your Instagram account is overwhelmed with otherworldly, cosmic or Kawaii-inspired portraits of your friends, you are not alone. Over the weekend, the photo editing app Lensa introduced “Magic Avatar,” an add-on that generates 50 fantasy portraits of you if you can provide a minimum […]
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Your face and images helped build ChatGPT and Lensa. Is that fair?
Comment on this story Comment This article is a preview of The Tech Friend newsletter. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Tuesday and Friday. Sure, that drunk selfie you posted on Instagram might be personally embarrassing. Now imagine that selfie is also training fuel for an […]
The viral AI avatar app Lensa undressed me—without my consent
Stability.AI, the company that developed Stable Diffusion, launched a new version of the AI model in late November. A spokesperson says that the original model was released with a safety filter, which Lensa does not appear to have used, as it would remove these outputs. One way Stable Diffusion 2.0 […]
AI art apps are cluttering the App Store’s Top Charts following Lensa AI’s success • TechCrunch
Lensa AI’s popularity has had a notable impact on the App Store’s Top Charts. The popular photo and video editing app recently went viral over its new “magic avatars” feature, powered by the open source Stable Diffusion model, allowing users to turn their selfies into styled portraits of themselves as […]