After trying artificial intelligence-powered avatar application Lensa, MIT Technology Review Senior Reporter Melissa Heikkila said it produced nonconsensual explicit photos of her. Heikkila reported Lensa generates avatars using open-source AI model Stable Diffusion that was built from LAION-5B, which is a data set containing scraped images from the internet. University of Washington assistant professor Aylin Caliskan said the data the AI model is trained on can be skewed toward sexualization because of the volume of such images on the internet.