It seems half the people I know on social media have replaced their profile pics with awkward AI avatars (and by social media, I mean Facebook... because yes, I'm still on Facebook, because I'm now officially over 40 and like to see what my friends and their kids are up to, and I don't actually live that close to many of them, and besides, I'm part of that weird micro-generation that hates picking up the phone but also loves doom-scrolling). There's Starrytars, Lensa, Portrait AI, AI art, DaVinci... the list goes on and on. The basis is simple--upload 10-20 photos of yourself and get back an "original" piece of art featuring...you! Lots of people are jumping in on it, and I'm sure, like every other profile pic trend that's happened in the last ten years, we'll find out soon enough some nefarious data mining having to do with the uploading of 10-20 photos of our faces and facial recognition hacking. The seedy underbelly of how AI algorithms pi...
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