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![‘Magic Avatar’ App Lensa Generated Nudes From My Childhood Photos](https://res.cloudinary.com/pai/image/upload/f_auto/q_auto/c_fill,h_480/v1/reports/media.wired.com/photos/639084ccfefa29ce257adac9/191:100/w_1280%2Cc_limit/Ideas_Lensa_GettyImages-1333504617.jpg)
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This weekend, the photo-editing app Lensa flooded social media with celestial, iridescent, and anime-inspired “magic avatars.” As is typical in our milkshake-duck internet news cycle, arguments as to why using the app was problematic prolif…
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Have you noticed that many of your friends are suddenly fairy princesses or space travelers? Is your Instagram feed overrun with Renaissance-style paintings of people who were definitely born in the ’90s? If so, you are entitled to an expla…
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In December, our feeds started getting flooded with AI-generated images of our friends. Thanks to the Lensa AI app. It quickly became the top photo app in the Apple app store — one analysis found that more than 20 million people have alread…
![The viral AI avatar app Lensa undressed me—without my consent](https://res.cloudinary.com/pai/image/upload/f_auto/q_auto/c_fill,h_480/v1/reports/wp.technologyreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/lensa-mh-grid.jpeg)
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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 …
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This year, it feels like artificial intelligence-generated art has been everywhere.
In the summer, many of us entered goofy prompts into DALL-E Mini (now called Craiyon), yielding a series of nine comedically janky AI-generated images. But …