A look at Prisma Labs’ Stable Diffusion-based image generation app Lensa, which costs $36 per year and exploded in popularity after adding “magic avatars” (Tatum Hunter/Washington Post)

A look at Prisma Labs’ Stable Diffusion-based image generation app Lensa, which costs $36 per year and exploded in popularity after adding “magic avatars” (Tatum Hunter/Washington Post)

Tatum Hunter / Washington Post:
A look at Prisma Labs’ Stable Diffusion-based image generation app Lensa, which costs $36 per year and exploded in popularity after adding “magic avatars”  —  Social media is celebrating.  Artists are protesting.  What’s the real cost of an AI-generated portrait?