The Lensa app has been the talk of the town due to its ability to generate self-portraits of users in different art styles using artificial intelligence – concerning some people about the ethics of using A.I. in art. What are your thoughts?
You may have seen an explosion in people posting self-portraits on social media in the past week using the Lensa app.
A.I. algorithms work by going into large datasets of work posted online from various sources to help photo apps like Lensa generate self-portraits for users in different styles, said Jennifer deWinter, dean of Lewis College of Science and Letters at Illinois Tech. Kennedy Freeman, a student in fine arts at Columbia College and founder of the Black fem art collective HourNine, said seeing these generated portraits spreading on social media made her concerned about how her art and those of other artists are being used without permission to help train A.I. generators.
Jason Salavon is an associate professor in visual arts at the University of Chicago and is also a contemporary fine artist whose art deals heavily with A.I.He said the technology that we’re seeing from the Lensa app is just a small taste of what’s happening right now and what is still to come, which is both exciting and scary.
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