Adam Kos It is quite interesting how the trends ruling the digital world change over time. Perhaps you too have been affected by the wave of profile photos generated by artificial intelligence in recent weeks. How about it being somewhat controversial and against the grain of the year.
What really ruled 2022? If we look at all the polls, it is clearly the BeReal social network, i.e. a platform that tries to be as real as possible. So its purpose is to take a photo here and now with the front and back camera and publish it immediately - without editing or playing with the result. BeReal won not only with regard to the best in the App Store, but also in Google Play.
It is therefore quite an interesting paradox that the opposite now prevails. Now, applications that create your avatars in the form of artificial intelligence have gained popularity. The first step towards this was titles like Dream by Wombo, where you simply entered text and chose the style in which you wanted to create it. Apart from the digital space, many platforms also offered a physical print of this "artwork".
Is it just me or are these AI selfie generator apps perpetuating misogyny? Here's a few I got just based on my photos of my face. pic.twitter.com/rUtRVRtRvG
— Brandee Barker (@brandee) December 3, 2022
Especially the title Lens, which at least is currently the most popular of them all, has taken this to another level. So it is not enough to enter text, but when you upload your portrait photo, the present algorithms will transform it into quite eye-catching results. And sometimes even a bit controversial.
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The dreaded controversy
This is because, as some users have noticed, Lensa makes female portraits too sexualized, even if they are created only from face photos. This leads to realistic acts of almost anyone. Even after uploading the face, the application completes the scene with sensual poses, and usually with a slightly larger bust. But the results are pleasing, so here In-App goes to hell. So it's really interesting to debate whether this is the intention of the developers or just the AI's own preference.
not sure how they got my tiddies so accurate, i swear i didn't upload my nudes to lensa pic.twitter.com/A2bNrWByVe
— It's Yerrr Girl, Alyssa (@_trashbaby13) December 7, 2022
The funny thing is that Lensa's terms of service instruct users to only submit appropriate content containing "no nudes" (presumably because the app itself created it). This, of course, opens the door to misuse - whether of photos of children, celebrities or ex-partners. Rights are another issue after that.
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It's not just apps like Lensa, but any AI image generator that can create them. After all, this is why big photo banks like Getty and Unsplash ban AI-generated content. Lensa uses Stable Diffusion to generate your portraits. Prisma Labs, the app's developer, states that "Lensa learns to create portraits just like a human - by learning different art styles." But who are these styles copied from? That's right, from real artists. It's supposed to be about "bringing art to the masses," but it's actually a fake in a way. Like any technology, it can be a nightmare if it ends up in the wrong hands.
I spent like five minutes and found dozens of AI generated Lensa images with fucked up "signatures" in the corners. So they're not even trying to hide that all this shit is just pulling from real artists real work, huh? https://t.co/c38KCvCHgT pic.twitter.com/3ucAb0CoJS
— Daniel Danger (@tinymediaempire) December 6, 2022
So take it all with a grain of salt and just as a demonstration of technological progress. Who knows, maybe in the future even Siri will be able to do something like this, where you just say: "Paint my portrait with the setting sun behind a cornfield in the style of Vincent van Gogh." As a result, we will get a Designed in California work of art.
