Lensa AI app creates a stir with sexy "Magic Avatar" images that no one wanted

December 14, 2022 By Prelo Con

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Lensa AI is a smartphone app that creates digital avatars from selfie photos. It is possible that this is the first time personalized latent diffusion avatar generation has managed to reach a large audience. When Lensa's AI avatar feature debuted, the press focused on the company's reported natural inclination to sexualize depictions of women. Lensa, a Prisma Labs product, debuted in 2018 as a subscription app centered on AI-powered photo editing. The app's popularity increased in late November 2022 as a result of its new "Magic Avatar" feature. Lensa seems to use a personalization training similar method to Dreambooth, and Magic Avatar appears to use the Stable Diffusion image synthesis model under the hood (whose ramifications we recently covered). All training occurs off-device and in the cloud. Women using the app observed that Lensa's Magic Avatar feature created semi-pornographic or unintentionally sexualized pictures in early December. "One of the issues I encountered in the app has been explained by other women online," wrote Zoe Sottile for CNN. Despite the fact that all of the images I uploaded were fully dressed. [caption id="attachment_72053" align="aligncenter" width="2000"]

Joe Maring/Digital Trends[/caption] According to reports, Prisma Labs has been working to avoid the accidental generation of naked pictures in Lensa AI. Lensa's AI tendencies are influenced by the Internet's cultural biases toward sexualized depictions of women. "The man-made unfiltered data. introduced the model to the existing biases of humanity," says Prisma CEO Andrey Usoltsev. Customers post 10-20 selfies from various angles and then wait 20-30 minutes for the results. Based on how closely their face resembles pics of a specific actress, celebrity, or model, different women will see different outcomes.

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