Turning the simplest selfies into professional or attractive profile photos… that’s the bet of the PhotoAI app, which has already been downloaded more than 50,000 times on the Google Play Store. The app, created by Sébastien LHomme, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to create high-quality images from users’ photos, adjusted to the standards of various social networks, reports Vice.
By purchasing the $19 LinkedIn package and submitting 12 to 20 selfies, the user will receive an edited photo of himself in a suit and tie within 12 hours, according to the network’s professional codes. For $15, he can also opt for the Tinder package, and this time benefit from an image featuring it.in its best lightand thus hope for success on the dating site. Most often, the retouching of the Tinder package in question consists of adding sunglasses to the original photo, Vice notes. Other options offered by PhotoAI: Create photos of yourself transformed into a superhero or pose next to a celebrity.
Contamination during data collection
The application guarantees in its privacy policy that after seven days and forever delete the photos sent by the user, as well as profile models created by artificial intelligence. The user is also not allowed to upload photos other than his own. However, nothing more is said about how the app collects the data. It does not guaranteethat no data has been transferred (at the user’s editor’s note) do not broadcast on the Internet“.
The app is part of a boom in the use of AI-generated images and photos. The site ThisPersonDoesnotExist.com (literally “this person does not exist”) remains to this day the most successful and disturbing experience it offers. Developed by engineer Philip Wang, the website creates from scratch photos of people’s faces that don’t exist.
Source: Le Figaro
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