An app that turns phone photos into artwork has taken off over the last week, attracting one million daily users as of Thursday.

An app that turns phone photos into artwork has taken off over the last week, attracting one million daily users as of Thursday. Prisma uses a “combination of neural networks and artificial intelligence” to strip images into layers and filter them with a choice of art styles including mosaic and gothic. The “artsy” images have filled Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook feeds, and although some accuse the app of devaluing “the work of real artists,” co-founder Alexey Moiseenkov sees the platform as a place where users can experiment and create their own artwork. (The Guardian)