What's the new Lensa AI photo editing app that has gone viral among celebrities?
Many avatar images have appeared on social media that use artificial intelligence to transform users' shapes into different characters, and you may have seen one of your friends or colleagues with these images, and wondered: What do they use to turn their images into this shape?
Photo editing app Lensa AI
The Lensa AI app is used for photo editing and is seeing a huge turnout after the addition of the magical avatar feature.
Celebrities, actors and influencers from different countries of the world, interacted with the "trend" of magical images on a large scale, and posted photos on their personal pages through various social media platforms.
Prisma Labs has launched the app for Android and iOS since 2018. The new magic avatars feature works within the app itself, processing between 10 and 20 selfies using an open-source AI model, called Stable Diffusion.
To try the photos, you must download the application from the Google Play Store for Android, and from the App Store for iOS, then open it and press the yellow button entitled "Magic Avatar", then choose from 10 to 20 personal photos, then click Continue.
After selecting the images, the application asks the user to pay the necessary fees to create the magic avatars, which start from $ 3.99, depending on the required number, which comes in 3 options: 50 images, 100 images, or 200 images.
Depending on the number of images chosen, the processing begins, which takes 20 to 40 minutes.
The application provides this process through Amazon's cloud computing platform AWS. Because images are AI-processed, the process takes a long time to finish compared to the edits provided by traditional photo-editing apps.
Thanks to the magic avatars feature, last November alone, Lensa saw 1.6 million downloads.
In October, there were about 220,000 downloads, meaning the app had a 600% growth rate. And now the total number of downloads of the app has reached 20 million.
Privacy and AI software
In an effort to address privacy concerns, Prisma Labs says users' personal photos and related form are permanently deleted from its servers once magic avatars are created.
Recently, there has been a boom in AI-based services, such as the ChatGPT chatbot and the newly launched Dall-E text description image creation tool.