What is Lensa AI: the app that has set off alarm bells?
Lensa AI is an app that turns users' faces into virtual paintings and avatars. To do this, they must upload 10 to 20 photographs of themselves in which they can be clearly seen. It is not free, although it has a 6-day trial period and you log in with your email.
There are numerous photography applications in which the user takes a selfie and the app creates an image with an avatar similar to that of a video game .
The more photos, the better the results Lensar slovenia number data to create these avatars of its users it needs very large amounts of " facial data " that is stored on the Internet.
You've probably heard of this app because it's been all over social media these past few weeks. Users have gone crazy for these selfies and have uploaded their creations to their profiles. It started in the United States and has now spread all over the world. It's the number one Android app in Spain.
According to its privacy policy , user images only leave the phone to be processed by the company's AI in the cloud and are deleted within 24 hours .
now on bsky (@megraeart) December 2, 2022
I'm cropping these for privacy reasons/because I'm not trying to call out any one individual. These are all Lensa portraits where the mangled remains of an artist's signature is still visible. That's the remains of the signature of one of the multiple artists it stole from.