Lensa AI, the selfie app that threatens your personal data?

Lensa AI shakes up the algorithm of social networks and for good reason, the application is all the rage by generating impressive selfies thanks to artificial intelligence. Thanks to this, the software came first in the downloads of the stores. The idea was pretty good, but (yes, there’s a but!) there are some issues with using the app. We tell you everything about this new trendy application and its excesses.

“Magic Avatar” or how to transform yourself

The latest feature “Magic Avatar” of the application allows you to generate portraits from your selfies thanks to artificial intelligence. So far, nothing too bad. Indeed, you upload about ten selfies and the AI ​​takes care of creating new ones in about thirty minutes. You then discover an image gallery that will allow you to rediscover yourself in prince or princess mode, kawaii, fantasy. Obviously, this has a price, it takes about €5 for the 50 portraits, but that does not in any way prevent it from satisfying the very many users of the application.

Nevertheless, the criticisms are there and this is justified.

A sexualization of photos, but not only

We find the portraits generated by Lensa AI absolutely everywhere. Social networks abound with these selfies and they all have one thing in common: a sexualization of portraits. The application has the unfortunate tendency to deliver more suggestive portraits than the original selfies provided, regardless of the gender of the person. The bodies are bare, the breasts amplified. This might not have been a real problem if the app was only for adults, but a huge number of teenagers are using it.

In addition, the company retains a number of personal data for an unspecified period, as explained by our colleagues on the site LeBigData.fr : “…Prisma [la firme créatrice de Lensa] receives permission to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate or create derivative works from User Content. This applies to any type of content, even if it includes an individual’s name or other identifying information. This authorization is “perpetual and transferable”, and does not give the right to “any additional compensation”.… »

Lensa AI in a nutshell

An application that is not mandatory to test (and which is neither vital nor fun.) The generated portraits are certainly of good quality, but is it worth sacrificing your personal data?