The rise of AI has created new anxieties about how an innocent photo could be manipulated into a deepfake, so “sharenting” is out and privacy is in.
Already a subscriber?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”.
To ensure everyone was on the same page, Taylor sent a text requesting their families abide by their wishes. Her family easily obliged; her husband’s family was a different story. “They were not understanding at all,” Taylor says. “They definitely fought us about it and said that we were overreacting. They thought I was crazy.” One family member even questioned whether the decision was reflective of possible postpartum anxiety.
Priya Kumar, an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University who studies children’s privacy in relation to digital technologies, connects this trend to larger societal concerns about these online platforms. “Parents are concerned about their children’s faces being placed in fabricated and generated works, with particular worries of having them depicted without consent in compromising manners,” Colman says. “Parents were slow to realise that the internet never forgets.
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