DENVER (KDVR) – Another photo app is taking social media by storm. Voila is an app that uses artificial intelligence to turn your photo into different 3D cartoon versions. The app is pretty simple to use. It allows you to select a photo from your photo library or to take one directly from the app. After you choose the photo, it takes only a few seconds of waiting before it turns your picture into a work of art.

A new app called Doublicat has risen in popularity on the Apple and Android app stores by allowing users to put their face on top of popular GIFs. The app collects information from a photo to analyse your facial features, and then places those on the heads of celebrities, movie scenes, and other content. As of writing, it is number three on the Google Play Store and number 28 on the Apple App Store. However, in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica and other scandals, users are likely to be concerned about the safety of such applications. The Russian-owned FaceApp, which uses facial recognition to edit your images, has a particularly controversial privacy policy which allows FaceApp a royalty-free, irrecovable, perpetual license to use your face with no compensation, according to its terms and conditions page.

Over a few years, applications of the Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have seen astounding growth. The technique has been successfully used for high-fidelity natural image synthesis, data augmentation tasks, improving image compressions, and more. From emoting super-realistic expressions to exploring deep space, and from bridging the human-machine empathetic disconnect to introducing new art forms, GANs have it all covered. Here, we list down a few impressive real-world applications of GANs. Who imagined that one day we will be able to see the expressions of the Italian noblewoman Lisa Gherardini from the famous portrait of Mona Lisa painted by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.

Chinese social media upstart, TikTok and its counterpart Douyin are turning to technology commonly used for creating deepfakes to power a yet-to-be-released feature. According to a report from TechCrunch, ByteDance, which owns TikTok and China-based Douyin, has been developing a feature that allows users to create videos in which their face is superimposed onto someone else's. The feature, which mirrors other deepfake technology used to doctor videos of politicians and public figures, is being referred to as'Face Swap' within TikTok's own code according to TechCrunch and has not yet been released to users. The face swapping feature, while similar to those long-used by other social media platforms like Snapchat, differs in its ability to realistically superimpose faces on videos according to TechCrunch. 'Face Swap' reportedly works by taking a biometric scan of a users' face from multiple angles - similar to the process of setting up a facial recognition app like Apple's Face ID - and then lets users choose videos that they want to insert their face onto.

If your timeline is being inundated with celebrity lookalikes, that's because a new viral app has taken off. Gradient Photo Editor allows users to upload a selfie or face photo and the app will use artificial intelligence to gradually turn them into a celebrity that they allegedly resemble. The photo editing app is just over a week old and has already amassed a huge celebrity following including the Kardashians and the record producer Diplo. The app's results sometimes miss the mark. One USA TODAY reporter's results included the Spanish soccer player Marc Bartra, rapper Tyler the Creator and Brazilian actress Giovanna Ewbank.

Zao, a free deepfake face-swapping app that's able to place your likeness into scenes from hundreds of movies and TV shows after uploading just a single photograph, has gone viral in China. Bloomberg reports that the app was released on Friday, and quickly reached the top of the free charts on the Chinese iOS App Store. And like the FaceApp aging app before it, the creators of Zao are now facing a backlash over a perceived threat to user privacy. Twitter user Allan Xia posted a neat demonstration of what the app is capable of yesterday with a 30 second clip of their face replacing Leonardo Dicaprio in famous moments from several of his films. According to Xia, the clips were generated in under eight seconds from just a single photograph, however Bloomberg notes that the app can also guide you through the process of taking a series of photographs -- where it will ask you to open and close your mouth and eyes -- to generate more realistic results.

'You oughta be in pictures," goes the 1934 Rudy Vallée song. And, as of last week, pretty much anyone can be. The entry requirements for being a star fell dramatically thanks to the launch, in China, of a face-swapping app that can decant users into film and TV clips. Zao, which has quickly become China's most downloaded free app, fuses the face in the original clip with your features. All that is required is a single selfie and the man or woman in the street is transformed into a star of the mobile screen, if not quite the silver one. In other words, anyone who yearns to be part of Titanic or Game of Thrones, The Big Bang Theory or the latest J-Pop sensation can now bypass the audition and go straight to the limelight without all that pesky hard work, talent and dedication. A whole new generation of synthetic movie idols could be unleashed upon the world: a Humphrey Bogus, a Phony Curtis, a Fake Dunaway. Zao already has its first star: the 30-year-old artist and games developer Allan Xia, who unwittingly became the face of the app last weekend after inserting himself into a Leonardo DiCaprio montage. Western media outlets hadn't paid much attention to Zao, which can only be accessed by users with a Chinese phone account, until Xia, who is based in Auckland but has a Chinese number, uploaded his experiments. After that, every media story covering the app came embedded with a clip of him strutting around in a Hawaiian shirt in Romeo Juliet, and basking in the golden sunset on deck in Titanic. How long did it take to claw himself to the top of the A-list? All I did was take a selfie, which was then ranked by the app to give me an idea of how well it would be able to generate videos based on my photo. It's looking to match your facial features to what is already there in its library of clips."

Another popular face-swapping app is generating backlash after many users called attention to potential privacy concerns. The app, Zao, recently skyrocketed to the top of China's iOS app store by offering users the chance to insert their faces into film and TV by simply uploading a series of pictures. Despite its popularity, patrons quickly turned on Zao due to a strongly-worded user agreement that gave'free, irrevocable, permanent, transferable and relicense-able' rights over use of its their content, reports Bloomberg. The company has since rolled back those terms, but many have voiced their outrage with the idea that their content was now owned by the company -- a relatively unknown entity. The deepfake app, Zao, was download widely across China over the weekend, but quickly became the center of controversy when users found out that it was claiming to own pictures uploaded to its platform.

Internet is such a wide thing that there is no need to introduce to you the FaceApp. But for those who don't know it, FaceApp is a photo-morphing app that uses what it calls artificial intelligence to make creepy, hilarious, weird kind of photos. It offers many different filters, but the most popular is the old age filter that makes people old and the second one is the gender-swapping filter that converts male pic into female and vice-versa. But as an AI enthusiastic person, the prime question for us "How does it work?". Well according to the company, the FaceApp uses an "advanced neural portrait editing technology" to automatically generate highly realistic transformations of faces in photographs.

With the internet buzzing about the viral FaceApp, which uses AI to predict how anyone will look in 30 years, there's another service that will transform you into a work of art. If you've ever dreamed of how your portrait would look if it were painted by one of the great masters, this app is for you. AI Portraits uses information from over 45,000 15th-century masterpieces to help "paint" the portrait of any photo that's uploaded. While there are plenty of apps and filters that promise to make your photo into a work of art, AI Portraits distinguishes itself with its GAN models. Many services use style transfers that alter colors, but leave the facial lines untouched.