But the app’s growth — and the rise of AI-generated art in recent months — has reignited discussion over the ethics of creating images with models that have been trained using other people’s original work.“We also believe that the growing accessibility of AI-powered tools would only make man-made art in its creative excellence more valued and appreciated, since any industrialization brings more value to handcrafted works.” The company said that AI-generated images “can’t be described as exact replicas of any particular artwork.” The thread did not address accusations that many artists didn’t consent to the use of their work for AI training.When she realized that her art was included in a dataset used to train the AI model that Lensa uses to generate avatars, she said it felt like a “violation of identity.” Prisma Labs deletes user photos from the cloud services it uses to process the images after it uses them to train its AI, the company told TechCrunch.Reddit users described the images as “brilliantly weird” and “like something straight out of a dream.” The San Francisco Ballet even used images generated by Midjourney to promote this season’s production of the Nutcracker.In a press release earlier this year, the San Francisco Ballet’s chief marketing officer Kim Lundgren said that pairing the traditional live performance with AI-generated art was the “perfect way to add an unexpected twist to a holiday classic.” The campaign was widely criticized by artist advocacy groups."