A rocky past haunts the mysterious company behind the Lensa AI photo app

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Remember those stylized AI portraits that were plastered all over social media? This is the story of the little-known Cyprus company behind the viral trend — and its shadowy past.

. The promise and potential pitfalls of AI wizardry was being taken in by thousands of people each day, as everyone gazed in wonder at AI images wearing their faces.

The company would not comment on specific figures, but said it relies on Amazon Web Services' servers to power the feature. an AI-powered photo app and so they teamed up with Poyaganov and Usoltsev, who both previously worked at Yandex, the most popular search engine in Russia.With a shoestring team of just nine people,so people could make theirit the best app of the year in 2016, declaring that"Prisma will make you fall in love with photo filters all over again.

"There were some troubles. Visa issues and so on," Hardy, a Prisma co-founder, told NPR."So the whole discussions just faded."met with Moiseenkov and expressed interest just before Snap went public in 2017, two sources told NPR. But before an offer could be extended, talks broke down over visa issues related to moving Prisma's small Moscow team to the U.S.

Last year, in March, Usoltsev laid off 30% of the staff and told employees they would have to relocate to Cyprus, or outside of Russia. Back in 2016, Mail.ru also invested in Prisma Labs. Since 2021, its chief executive, Vladimir Kiriyenko,by U.S. and European authorities following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But Mail.ru no longer has any ownership of Prisma.

 

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Like this one. Not real

They still show up as profile pics 6 scamners and sex workers .

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