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Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The app uses artificial intelligence to change your photos – changing it so that users look young or older, or swapping their genders, for instance. When users submit a photo to the app to change how it looks, it makes its way onto FaceApp’s servers. The changes use FaceApp’s artificial intelligence tools, which run on its servers, and so the photo must make be given over to the app. The terms give the app the ability to use those photos in just about any way, without giving anything back to the users who first created them, the app makes clear.

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