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Lensa AI app's Ts and Cs allow it to 'distribute' your photos without 'any additional compensation'

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Have you seen a picture of one of your friend's on social media recently where they look like a fairytale character or Renaissance painting? They may have used Lensa AI - a new app that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to generate a series of avatars using their selfies. While the'Magic Avatars' may look cool, there could be some hidden catches in the app's terms and conditions that unsuspecting users accepted without thinking. After uploading the selfies to the app, Lensa AI gets permission to'use' and'distribute' them indefinitely - and without'any additional compensation'. While the Lensa AI'Magic Avatars' may look cool, there could be some hidden catches in the app's terms and conditions, that unsuspecting users accepted without thinking.


What does the Lensa AI app do with my self portraits and why has it gone viral?

The Guardian

So there's this app called Lensa, which was launched as a photo editing app back in 2018, by Prisma Labs. But it only went viral recently for its new AI-generated "magic avatars" feature. Users, provided they upload 10-20 selfies, can pay a small sum to receive digital portraits of themselves morphed into a range of kooky styles from "anime" to "fairy princess". It's one of those trends that launched to meteoritic popularity really fast – it's now the most downloaded photo and video app on the iOS store. Sending pictures of yourself off into the ether to get sent back more pictures of yourself seems a bit weird to me, but I am over 30.


How These AI-Powered Chatbots Keep Getting Better

WIRED

Artificial intelligence is advancing faster than ever, with a new crop of generative AI programs that are creating art, videos, humor, fake news, and plenty of controversy. The technologies powering this latest slate of tools have been in the works for years, but the public release of these programs--particularly a new chatbot enabled by OpenAI's GPT system--represents a big step forward for machine intelligence. Same with the image-generating app Lensa, which creates painterly selfies that have captured the public's imagination. Now, engineers are asking chat programs for coding help, students are using AI to generate book reports instantly, and researchers are testing the tools' ethical boundaries. It's all gotten very weird, but AI is about to get bigger and even weirder still.


Looking beyond "technology for technology's sake"

Robohub

"Learning about the social implications of the technology you're working on is really important," says senior Austen Roberson. Austen Roberson's favorite class at MIT is 2.S007 (Design and Manufacturing I-Autonomous Machines), in which students design, build, and program a fully autonomous robot to accomplish tasks laid out on a themed game board. "The best thing about that class is everyone had a different idea," says Roberson. "We all had the same game board and the same instructions given to us, but the robots that came out of people's minds were so different." The game board was Mars-themed, with a model shuttle that could be lifted to score points.


New powerful AI bot creates angst among users: Are robots ready to take our jobs?

FOX News

'The Five' co-hosts discuss new AI bot ChatGPT and the impact artificial intelligence will have on future jobs. Fox News' Jesse Watters offered reassurance Wednesday on "The Five" that a war against machines is not imminent and killer robots haven't taken over quite yet. A new artificial intelligence (AI) bot, ChatGPT, caused a stir on social media, writing essays, books, poems and even computer code upon request. "The Five" got in on the trend asking it to write a poem about the show. "They entertain and inform with their banter and charm and have viewers tune in day and night," the message read in part.


FICO Wins Machine Learning Award for Scams Detection Model

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Global analytics software provider FICO won the Machine Learning in Credit and Collections Award at the 2022 Credit & Collections Technology …



ChatGPT and Lensa: Why Everyone Is Playing With Artificial Intelligence - WSJ

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Who knew artificial intelligence could be so entertaining? Case in point is ChatGPT, a free AI chatbot that has probably been all over your social feeds lately. "Who was George Washington Carver?" But it can get creative, too: "Write a movie script of a taco fighting a hot dog on the beach" generates a thrilling page of dialogue, humor and action worthy of YouTube, if not quite Netflix: Taco: "So you think you can take me, hot dog? You're nothing but a processed meat product with no flavor."


AI bot that can do schoolwork could 'blow up' US education system, with youngest at most risk: former teacher

FOX News

Former English teacher, Peter Laffin, predicts OpenAI's new artificial intelligence chatbot will lead to a learning crisis and force teachers to rethink education. The emergence of artificial intelligence chatbots that can complete students' assignments will lead to a crisis in learning, forcing educators to rethink schooling entirely, a former teacher said. "The introduction of new artificial intelligence technologies into schools that enables students to auto-generate essays has the capacity to blow up our entire writing education curriculum," Peter Laffin, founder of Crush the College Essay and writing coach, told Fox News. "It may make us have to rethink it from the ground up, and that might ultimately be a good thing." Last week, tech company OpenAI unveiled an AI chatbot, ChatGPT, which has stunned users with its advanced functions.


I asked ChatGPT to write a Harry Potter fan fiction, the result will blow your mind.

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As a Harry Potter fan and a lover of writing, I was curious to see what would happen if I asked ChatGPT (Generative Pretrained Transformer) to write a Harry Potter fan fiction. So, I fed ChatGPT a few prompts and let it do its magic. The result was a piece of fan fiction titled "The Lost Diadem of Ravenclaw", which follows the story of Harry, Ron, and Hermione as they embark on a quest to find the lost diadem of Ravenclaw. The diadem, which is said to enhance the intelligence of its wearer, has been missing for centuries and is believed to be hidden in the Forbidden Forest. As they journey through the forest, the trio encounters a number of obstacles and challenges, including an encounter with a pack of werewolves and a showdown with the infamous Death Eater Bellatrix Lestrange. Despite the challenges they face, Harry, Ron, and Hermione persevere and eventually find the lost diadem.