Lensa & The Ethical Challenges of AI

Jelani Greenidge
8 min readDec 8, 2022
One of many “Magic Avatars” of the author generated by Lensa, a photo-editing app that uses AI to alter existing photos

We need to change how we talk about AI-assisted creative technology because the old paradigms no longer apply.

So in the past several weeks, I’ve seen an explosion of content on my social media feeds from people posting artistic renderings of themselves using the photo app Lensa. Alongside this dramatic uptick in popularity has…

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