{"id":7403,"date":"2021-06-24T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=7403"},"modified":"2021-07-23T14:05:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T18:05:31","slug":"new-cartoon-app-is-taking-over-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/new-cartoon-app-is-taking-over-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"New Cartoon App Is Taking Over Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Viola AI Artist, an app that turns users into a Pixar-worthy cartoon avatar by harnessing users&#8217; faces and transforming them into three different cartoon styles from which users can choose with complete shading, is gaining ground on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the important things everyone needs to know about the app is that it is free for Android and iPhone devices and offers users an ad-free premium option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The app doesn&#8217;t work well for dogs, cats, etc. and images where the app says faces can&#8217;t be recognized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Images of cut-off heads often work but with a strange halo the app automatically fills in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of privacy, the app collects personal information about users, their phones and their online activities.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/how-to\/have-you-seen-the-cartoon-app-everyones-using-on-facebook-lately-heres-what-we-know-about-voila-ai-artist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in CNET.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viola AI Artist, an app that turns users into a Pixar-worthy cartoon avatar is gaining ground on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7446,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7403\/revisions\/7446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}