We Give You 6 Celeb Avatars From The Lensa App. Scroll down to take a look and also stay informed on the risks of using the app
Do you want a Mona Lisa Inspired Portrait starring you? If yes, then use the Lensa app to create one through its AI technology!
Scrolling through instagram this past week has been an experience in selfie spotting as our favorite celebrities posted digital artwork of themselves in various moods. Still, confused about or living under a rock? Well, you’ve come to the right place so let’s get to the basics, shall we?
What Is The App That Took The Internet By Storm?
Lensa, a photo, and video editing software from Prisma Labs has been active since 2018 but it launched its magic avatar feature last month. The $35.99 annual subscription fee for the app includes an additional $3 to $12 fee for packs of avatars. Lensa will use the eight to ten selfies you provide, in which your face takes up most of the frame and there is no other person in the picture, to train a machine learning model. The model then creates pictures of you in several artistic genres, such as “anime” or “fairy princess,” based on your face. Lensa uses the Stable Diffusion machine learning model, which is open-source and was trained on billions of internet-scraped image-and-text pairs. The app creates a custom machine learning model exclusively for you when you submit your images and store them in its cloud storage. Then that model produces fresh pictures of you.
Pakistani Celebrities Share Their Avatars from Lensa!
Mahira Khan shared multiple pictures after using Lensa and quotes in caption “Artist.”
The music sensation Ali Sethi shares an Instagram Reel of pictures from Lensa describing his A.I self as “A.I. me = bronzer + ponytail lift.”
Shahana Jan uploaded her portraits from Lensa which look likes fictional paintings. She captioned “Yes, I too wanted to know what I’d look like with this because I just want to live in a fantasy okay.”
Hashim Ali shared a series of pictures from Lensa too. Moreover, he says denotes in the caption of his post that AI is freaky, but it gave him a good jawline, cheeks and a chin.
Saima Rashid Bargfrede shares her A.I portraits as artwork saying “Mood AI.”
Hussain Rehar, one of the most colorful designers in Pakistan uploaded his portraits from Lensa quoting “Insane.”
Is Lensa Really Safe To Use?
The images or unique models are not being used by Prisma Labs to train a facial recognition network. It is said Prisma Labs saves the “bare minimum” of information based on your images but would not clarify whether it stores any.
The actual privacy issue with Lensa is approached from a different direction. LAION, a massive collection of photos needed to train the AI, was carelessly scraped from the internet. AI experts indicate that it contains pictures of individuals whose consent was not obtained.
According to its privacy statement, Lensa only uses the uploaded images it receives to apply filters and effects. In addition to using your information for these purposes, it also adds a number of others, such as the following: for the neural network algorithms’ training, to deliver, enhance, test, and monitor Lensa’s performance, to give you individualized content and information about Lensa, to identify or resolve Lensa-related technology issues.
Problems With AI Apps Like Lensa
According to Mutale Nkonde, the founder of the algorithmic justice group AI for the People, models tend to perform poorly when interpreting and recreating photographs of dark-skinned people since they are underrepresented in both AI engineering and training images. For instance, when facial recognition is employed for law enforcement, there are horrifying chances for discrimination to occur.
At least three unjustified arrests of Black men have already occurred as a result of the technology.
AI imagery has been avidly embraced by some designers. However, as Lensa avatars flooded social media feeds, several digital artists begged users to reconsider paying for the programme. According to artists, Lensa’s ‘styles’ are based on real artwork created by real people who are not getting paid.
Jon Lam, a story artist at video game developer Riot Games, said, “Nobody really understands that a programme absorbing everyone’s art and then making concept art is already harming our careers, actually.” (Source: Washington Post)
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