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Is the App Trying to Make You Look Like Santa Claus?

The app is ingesting your photos, learning your face and then drawing your face in a number of styles based on what it's learned about those styles. The critique is that there's not a ton of transparency in the app about whose art was ingested to teach the AI to make you look like a fairy princess or give you a glass of pop art. In one case, for me, Santa with two pom poms and slightly asymmetrical eyes. So Steve, what what does this do to you? Can we can we talk about some of your portraiture?

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