11/12/2022
Another filter craze that's all over social media is turning your friends' photos into artwork. It's called Lensa AI, and the viral photo-editing app takes your uploaded photos and creates "magic avatars" using your face. However, the photo editor doesn't come without privacy concerns.
Lensa AI is free to download on your phone, but you'll have to pay $4 to upload up to 20 photos for editing. You'll then receive 50 avatar images based on the photos you submitted.
Since the app recently gained popularity, privacy concerns have surfaced -- specifically, about how user data is being used. For instance, Lensa can use your uploaded photos to train its AI.
The Lensa privacy policy says it doesn't use your uploaded photos for anything other than to apply filters and effects to them. However, it adds a slew of ways it may use your information (other than photos and videos).