Engadget Podcast: LensaAI selfies and ChatGPT dominated our socials this week

This week, many of us saw our social media feeds taken over by colorful, surreal pictures of people we follow, except they dont quite look like themselves. The images were generated by Lensa AI, and its the latest in what feels like a now-annual trend to use a new app to create mockups of your face in various scenarios. Alongside Lensa, some folks also saw blocks of text from another AI generator, ChatGPT. So on this episode of the podcast, Devindra and Cherlynn chat the appeal, implications and possible future of these types of AI, before being joined by Engadget editor-at-large James Trew for a check in on the state of action cameras.

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• Lensa AI "magic avatars" and ChatGPT 1:27

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Credits
Hosts: Cherlynn Low and Devindra Hardawar
Producer: Ben Ellman
Music: Dale North and Terrence O'Brien
Livestream producers: Julio Barrientos
Graphic artists: Luke Brooks and Brian Oh