Fox News correspondent Grady Trimble has the latest on fears the technology will spiral out of control on'Special Report.' An emerging semi-professional ultimate disc league has formed a partnership with an AI-driven company to revolutionize avatars for its players. The American Ultimate Disc League recently tapped Lensa AI to help turn a first-of-its-kind approach to avatars into a reality for the 2023 season. Artificial intelligence company Prisma Labs launched the Lensa AI app in 2018. The photo and video editing platform has become one of the most popular apps on Google Play and the Apple App Store.

This year, it feels like artificial intelligence-generated art has been everywhere. In the summer, many of us entered goofy prompts into DALL-E Mini (now called Craiyon), yielding a series of nine comedically janky AI-generated images. But more recently, there's been a boom of AI-powered apps that can create cool avatars. MyHeritage AI Time Machine generates images of users in historical styles and settings, and AI TikTok filters have become popular for creating anime versions of people. This past week, "magic avatars" from Lensa AI flooded social media platforms like Twitter with illustrative and painterly renderings of people's headshots, as if truly made by magic. These avatars, created using Stable Diffusion -- which allows the AI to "learn" someone's features based off of submitted images -- also opened an ethical can of worms about AI's application.

Last week, after seeing artsy portraits popping up all over her social media feeds, Christal Luster signed up for a free trial of a photo-editing app called Lensa. She uploaded 10 of her headshots to it and paid $5.99 for 100 new images based on her inputs, which an artificial-intelligence tool produced in under an hour. Ms. Luster, an actress in Chicago, said the images opened her eyes to the types of characters she could portray. "There was one of them where I was like, 'Oh I could totally see myself playing in'Bridgerton.' I could learn to speak with a British accent. I could do period pieces," she said.

Self-flattery is pushing AI into the mainstream. But should you join the thousands of people who are experimenting with AI portraiture? This new trend, enabled by an app called Lensa AI, raises some very difficult questions about craft, consent, and bias. How Does Lensa AI Work? Developed by Prisma Labs, the Lensa AI app (iOS/Android) launched in 2018 and offers several photo retouching features.

Over the past one week, Lensa AI -- an artificial intelligence-powered image filter app -- has raised a storm on social media platforms. The cause of the storm -- after AI image generation platforms such as Midjourney created noise by creating pieces of art based on a few words of text, Lensa AI has given AI in art a new spin by turning users' selfies into virtuoso works of art. However, the social media storm has also seen many raise concerns with the service -- and what it means for user privacy and data security. What is the Lensa AI app? Lensa AI is actually not a new app, but its recent spell of popularity stems from a recent update to its core technology. The app is built by Prisma Labs -- a California-based AI developer that also shot to popularity five years ago with another of its apps, called Prisma.

Has the stale selfie that's served as your profile picture gone a little too long without a refresh? You've likely seen friends using the Lensa AI app to create colorful, custom cartoon images of themselves as ethereal fairies or stern astronauts. Prisma Labs, the company behind Lensa, went viral back in 2016 with a similar (albeit less powerful) app that turned smartphone pics into paintings. The release of Lensa's "magic avatars" feature is a global hit for the company. Recent advancements in generative artificial intelligence allow the app to produce more impressive and varied results than its predecessor.

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.

It's not only an everyday tool that's used to help us remember things, it helps us with our daily tasks. A smartphone's camera also takes amazing pictures and makes smart features of your photos to do. The application of artificial intelligence in cameras has allowed smartphones to blur out the background in real-time live. Despite the many benefits of using the correct digital camera, the biggest challenge comes from finding the app that will take into consideration, not only your requirements but all needs. A number of camera apps make use of Artificial Intelligence other than Remini for different uses and to achieve different results.

The style transfer craze kicked off by an app called Prisma a couple of years ago led to a tsunami of painterly selfies flooding social feeds for several months, as we reported at the time, before the rapacious, face-snapping hoards shifted their attention toward fresh spectacles. The same tech is now creeping into (paper) kids' books, via a partnership between children's publisher startup, Kabook, and Prisma Labs: aka the b2b entity that the original app makers pivoted to in late 2017. So instead of AI sending robots into a human-slaying frenzy, per the usual dystopian sci-fi storyline, we find ourselves confronted with neural nets being used to serve up contextual illustrations of children so parents can gift personalized books that seamlessly insert a child's likeness into the story, thereby casting them as a character in the tale. Well, not unless you view this kind of self-centered content manipulation as a threat to children's imaginations and developing sense of empathy. The Kabook integration is the first consumer product partnership that Prisma Labs has scored, according to a press release from the pair.

The startup behind the Prisma style transfer app is shifting focus onto the b2b space, building tools for developers that draw on its expertise using neural networks and deep learning technology to power visual effects on mobile devices. It's launched a new website, Prismalabs.ai, detailing this new offering. Initially, say Prisma's co-founders, they'll be offering an SDK for developers wanting to add effects like style transfer and selfie lenses to their own apps -- likely launching an API mid next week. Then, in the "next month or so", they also plan to offer another service for developers wanting help to port their code to mobile. This was, after all, how the co-founders originally came up with the idea for the Prisma app -- having seen a style transfer effect working (slowly) on a desktop computer and realized how much potential it would have if it could be made to work in near real-time on mobile.