Olivia Snow and I chat about the social implications of <a href="https://prisma-ai.com/lensa" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lensa</a>, technically a picture editor for selfies and photo retouching, or “an all-in-one image editing app that takes your photos to the next level”. We unpack how AI image apps like Lensa amplify racism, misogyny, transphobia and hatred of sex workers, while also providing a potential way to thwart expectations of ‘real’ representation. Recorded Dec 10, 2022. <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Death, with Tamara Kneese

Hi everyone, my name is Mél Hogan and I’m a critical media studies scholar based in Canada. I’m working on a project called The Data Fix through a series of conversations with scholars, thinkers and feelers. Together we explore the significance of living in a world of data, and especially the growing trend of “digital humans” in the form of chatbots, holograms, deepfakes, ai images and videos, and even tech that revives the dead. The conversations are minimally edited, and serve as an archive of the collective thinking and feeling that is going into the Data Fix project. Please see thedatafix.net for more details and show notes. Thank you so much for listening.&nbsp; Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.