egomaniacal AI slime
Via Print Mag, a piece worth reading on the current Lensa phenomenon:
Via Print Mag, a piece worth reading on the current Lensa phenomenon:
Lensa has been debunked as a platform that steals actual artwork from real artists in order to generate these AI portraits. Lensa is able to do this through a legal loophole that the slimy AI image generator called Stable Diffusion first deployed. Not to mention Lensa is charging its users (monthly subscriptions are $29.99 and the avatar tool costs an additional $3.99 for 50 images) to then *own* their uploaded images. Digging into the fine print of the Lensa User Agreement reveals that users are granting them “a perpetual, revocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully-paid, transferable, sub-licensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, create derivative works from and transfer your User Content, without any additional compensation to you…”