Can AI Make Deep Fakes of Our Kids?

Another reason to take the kids off the socials.....

I think a lot about whether I should post my kids to Instagram. About a year ago I wiped 90% of their pictures from the platform. Now I mostly put them in stories if I include them at all. Frankly, I know I need to stop. I post my kids for selfish reasons, because I love them and think they’re fucking delicious and I want to share them with the world.

I am a hypocrite even talking about this, but if we don’t keep having the discussion we are never going to figure it all out because there are very real dangers to posting our kids to social. I know all of them because I meticulously reported them out for Under the Influence a couple of years ago.

There are issues about privacy and consent...the fact that anyone can take these pictures of children and do whatever they want with them.

WE need to be the ones thinking about the ramifications of our kids entire lives being posted online.

Kids don’t have the capacity to understand what sharing means. In a way none of us do because we’re still in uncharted waters as far as sharing so many images and videos of children online on these platforms where we don’t really no what’s going to happen to this content in the future.

Here’s the thing, the future is now. With the balls to the wall rise of AI this year I’ve been digging into what this could mean for the pictures we so innocently post of our children? Could AI be crawling them? Could that pic of your kid in the tub or the pool be used to make a deep fake of them that could be used for nefarious and disgusting purposes?