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title: Would you get inked by AI?
description: "Generative AI anxiety has come for another unsuspecting crew: tattoo artists."
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# [Would you get inked by AI?](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/news/would-you-get-inked-by-ai)

 Written by [Sara Friedman](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/news/author/sara-friedman) | Jul 13, 2023 9:45:15 PM

Yes, we talk about artificial intelligence a lot, but AI becoming a tattoo artist wasn’t on our 2023 bingo card.

Before we conjure up nightmarish images of needle-wielding robots, fret not — AI is just handling the designs (for now).

Per [*The Information*](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-next-platform-for-ai-generated-art-your-bicep?rc=yvoyej), new generative AI startups are helping people imagine the ink of their dreams:

- [TattoosAI](https://www.tattoosai.com/) lets you describe your tattoo idea and pick a style and color to generate design options.
- [Tattoo Jenny](https://www.tattoojenny.com/) has users input one or two keywords and choose from 12 styles.
- Users have generated 1m+ designs on [BlackInk.AI](https://blackink.ai/styles) since November 2022 through pre-made prompts and styles.

Generative AI has the advantage of speed when it comes to tattoos: Where an artist might spend hours reworking a design for a client, an AI app can spit out hundreds of iterations in mere seconds.

#### **Much tattoo about nothing**

As with any new tech, not [everyone](https://www.reddit.com/r/TattooDesigns/comments/109jlz7/is_it_shallow_to_get_a_tattoo_designed_by_ai/) is thrilled. But “flash tattoos” — pre-made designs that live in books or on walls at tattoo shops — have long existed, and AI generation might just be the modern-day version.

BlackInk.AI is even planning a visualization tool for those with tat regrets that could take an uploaded image of your existing tattoo and generate a new design to cover it up seamlessly.

**Added perk: **Artificial intelligence won’t judge you for reworking that tattoo of your ex’s name.

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