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This week, many of us saw our social media feeds taken over by colorful, surreal pictures of people we follow, except they don’t quite look like themselves. The images were generated by Lensa AI, and it’s the latest in what feels like a now-annual trend to use a new app to create mockups of your face in various scenarios. Alongside Lensa, some folks also saw blocks of text from another AI generator, ChatGPT. So on this episode of the podcast, Devindra and Cherlynn chat the appeal, implications and possible future of these…

Artificial intelligence is a term thrown around a lot in the tech space, and while it's not always the easiest thing to understand, it can have some pretty fascinating uses — such as AI image generators with apps like Lensa. Lensa is an AI-powered photo editing app with a large swath of tools, allowing users to remove objects from photos, remove blemishes from selfies, and more. Lensa's best and most popular feature, though, is its AI selfie generator. With just a few taps, the Lensa app uses AI to generate…

The new AI tool, Clip Interrogator, analyses people and bullies them based on their selfies Suddenly, a new AI tool is roasting people beyond repair based just on their selfies, just as we were beginning to believe that advancements in artificial intelligence generator technology may have at a relative stop. But now we have answers that there is no stopping controversial AI technology and applications. Every morning in 2022, a new AI tool is released online. The days when internet users created goofy art for Twitter…

Indian teenagers claim to be spending over five hours a day using their smartphones and nearly four in 10 would feel “extremely restless" if their handsets were taken away from them for a day, a survey has found. Indians are using their smartphones mainly for messaging, listening to music, accessing social media, and taking selfies. However, many still prefer the television for news. The survey, which…

Like any novel technological development, text-to-image AI models are slowly moving from the R&D stage to the phase of “making weird stuff for social media.” Case in point is the phenomenon of the AI-generated selfie, which splices your likeness with different artistic styles and themes using machine learning. Think of it like the next Snapchat filter: a quick way to make your face look goofier than normal. Or goofy in a different way. There are a few methods to make your own AI-generated portrait right now, like the…

Actor, DJ, and heiress Paris Hilton is in Mumbai. The popular figure arrived in the city on Wednesday evening where she was clicked at the Mumbai airport in the middle of a sea of fans, clicking selfies with them happily. This is Paris’ fourth visit to India and as per reports, it is for the promotion of a new venture of hers. Also read: Paris Hilton has a date with MumbaiIn videos and pictures from the airport shared by paparazzi, Paris can be seen mingling with the crowd at the Mumbai airport. The heiress carried a…

Google just launched its Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro smartphones, and as expected, the cameras haven't changed much from the previous model, hardware-wise. As usual though, Google has introduced a bunch of new and useful AI software camera tricks powered by the new Tensor G2 chip, including updates to Real Tone, along with the new Super Res Zoom, Photo Unblur and Cinematic Blur features. It also unveiled the very cool "Guide Frame" feature that helps visually impaired people take selfies. One that's bound to be popular (and…

Lizzo recently gave an inside glimpse to fans at her fabulous night at the Emmys 2022. The singer took to her Instagram and shared a slew of photos from the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards, posing with some of our favourite TV stars. In the post, Lizzo included photos with stars like Zendaya, Martin Short, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Jennifer Coolidge, Pete Davidson and more. Alongside the photos, Lizzo penned in the caption, “It’s selfie time :).” At the award show, Lizzo took home the outstanding competition program Emmy for her show…

Huawei may not be the major player in the European phone market that it once was, but it’s not out of the game yet, bringing another pair of phones to the international market: the Nova 10 and Nova 10 Pro. Announced in China earlier this summer, these two phones are set apart by their focus on high-res selfie cameras. Both pack a 60Mp ultrawide camera on the front, complete with autofocus, and the Pro model supplements this with an 8Mp 2x zoom camera too. Dominik Tomaszewski / Foundry They’re no slouches on the…

AI image generators give the users the power to visualize their imagination, how much ever removed from reality So, Artificial intelligence predicts selfies would dominate, ghoulish humans, holding mobiles, at the end of the earth, an event that would destroy every sign of life. Indeed, it is hypothetical and difficult to imagine the situation.  An AI image generator, Midjourney, an obscure but close associate of Open AI, imagined a few of them revealing how scary they can be. Shared by a tik-tok account, @Robot…