What does the Lensa AI app do with my self portraits and why has it gone viral?

Caitlin Cassidy gives Nino Bucci the full picture of the latest ‘magic avatar’ generator and image editing app

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Caitlin, I’m seeing a lot of weird portraits of friends popping up on my social media timelines. What is going on?

OK. So there’s this app called Lensa, which was launched as a photo editing app back in 2018, by Prisma Labs.

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Caitlin Cassidy gives Nino Bucci the full picture of the latest ‘magic avatar’ generator and image editing app
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Caitlin, I’m seeing a lot of weird portraits of friends popping up on my social media timelines. What is going on?
OK. So there’s this app called Lensa, which was launched as a photo editing app back in 2018, by Prisma Labs.
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