Lensa AI generates nudes from childhood photos
Childhood photographs of academic Olivia Snow uploaded to Lensa AI's Magic Avatars system generated fully nude images, raising questions about the product's governance. Despite only uploading headshots of herself, Snow, a research fellow at UCLA’s Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, described in WIRED how Magic Avatars generated nudes from her childhood photos. According to Snow, 'many users—primarily women—have noticed that even when they upload modest photos, the app not only generates nudes but also ascribes cartoonishly sexualized features, like sultry poses and gigantic breasts, to their images.' The incident prompted commentators to express concerns about the ineffectiveness of Lensa 's no nudes policy . Lensa blamed its users, saying that any pornographic images generated by Magic Avatars are 'the result of intentional misconduct on the app'. System 🤖 Lensa AI Magic Avatars Operator: Olivia Snow Developer: Prisma Labs Country: USA Sector: Media/entertainment/sports/arts Purpose: Create avatars Technology: Neural network; Deep learning; Machine learning Issue: Privacy
- Date it happened
- 2022-12-01
- Organisation involved
- Olivia Snow
- Product, system or model
- Magic Avatars 2.0
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