Lensa AI can transform Photoshopped fakes into nonconsensual pornography 

Tuesday, December 6, 2022 Posted by bloggerdaddy
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By Christine Hall

Tuesday, December 06, 2022

Why, hello there, and welcome to your Tuesday Daily Crunch. I'll be your host this week while Haje works from an undisclosed location where day is night and night is day. If you aren't enjoying today's Found podcast about tampons, we hope you at least saw stars at the TC Sessions: Space event. Let's dig into some news! — Christine

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The TechCrunch Top 3

  • First AI, now soft porn: We've written recently about artificial intelligence and porn, but as everyone has run to the App Store to try out Lensa AI's avatars, Haje finds out that, as he put it, "it's way too easy to trick Lensa AI into making NSFW images." Can't say we didn't see that coming. In fact, Taylor is over here raising red flags.
  • Robinhood is getting into retirement: Mary Ann reports that Robinhood is moving into the individual retirement account game, offering a 1% match on every dollar contributed — the company says this is an industry first. And it's not going after the typical saver. Instead, it is targeting gig workers and contractors who often don't have that ability outside of traditional workplaces.
  • Email is life: To some people, no access to email might be relaxing, but for those whose email was affected by the recent Rackspace outage, we hope Carly's story sheds some light on what has been happening. It was indeed a ransomware attack.

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Startups and VC

The venture market has been a tough one for many startups trying to get a better hold on their runway. So when a scrappy young company is able to raise in this environment, Alex's ears perk up. He spoke to Cacheflow, which builds tools for the software sales closing process, about the $10 million raise that doubled its valuation.

And speaking of industries hit hard by the market, Ingrid reports on some good news for the beleaguered quick commerce sector, where Norwegian grocery delivery company Oda grabbed $151 million, but at a lower valuation of $353 million.

And we have five more for you:

How companies can slash ballooning SaaS costs

A study conducted recently by purchasing management platform Vertice found that one out of every eight dollars spent by enterprises goes to SaaS products.

“It's not surprising when you consider the average organization now uses around 110 SaaS solutions,” reports Kyle Wiggers. As a result, customers are spending 53% more on software licensing today than in 2017.

"Most organizations have grown their portfolio of software vendors dramatically over the past 10 years," said Stephen White, senior director analyst at Gartner. "It's not uncommon to have more than doubled that vendor portfolio."

Four more from the TC+ team:

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Big Tech Inc.

We are now looking at an age where human journalists just might become obsolete (probably not, but yikes anyway). Natasha L had a conversation with OpenAI's ChatGPT about its functions and limitations. We won't spoil it for you.

And we have five more for you:

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