Don’t want your kid to end up as a deepfake? Keep their face offline

The rise of AI has created new anxieties about how an innocent photo could be manipulated, so “sharenting” is out and privacy is in.

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Apr 18, 2024 – 7.24am

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A month after her son was born, Samantha Taylor, 30, and her husband came to a realisation: they didn’t want photos of their child posted online. They worried about how quickly artificial intelligence was advancing and how the photos could be used, in addition to “creeps online in general”.

“It was such a strong mum instinct,” Taylor says. “It was like something took over. I just felt so protective.” Taylor left her son’s birth announcement on social media, but now, a year later, that is the only photo of the child that exists online.

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