The bizarre rise of ‘grandmaslop’ — grandparents are filling family albums with AI images, and their kids hate it

One of the unexpected consequences of freely available AI tools like Gemini , Claude, and ChatGPT has been the rise of what’s quickly becoming known as ‘grandmaslop’.

It seems that grandparents are filling their family albums with AI versions of pictures of their grandchildren and sending them to their kids.

When it comes to using generative AI on family photos, at least, the trend has exposed a striking generational divide.

“I'm Gen X, but my Boomer mom made a whole AI book for both of my kids.

It was bizarre,” said one Reddit user, commenting on the rise of grandmaslop .

“I think the weirdest part is, if photos are our way of immortalizing a moment in time for the sake of our memories, then what is an AI-generated image, if it's a moment of time that never existed?” asked another user.

Storybooks of slop The ease of use of AI tools means that grandparents are creating whole storybooks of slop featuring their grandkids and emailing them to their kids.

“The books are crap, all have the same AI slop cartoon styling and the stories make no sense and have horrible meter”, said another Reddit user.

“One was a rhyming book that had words that didn’t rhyme.” The new phenomenon of 'grandmaslop' seems to be a perfect example of a topic that reveals the generational divide in approaches to AI.

One user suggests that perhaps for a lot of people the concept and proof of a relationship is more important than the execution of an art project.

Another user agrees and wryly adds, “My father is the proudest grandparent in the world.

He tells everyone how much he loves the grandkids he never sees, so that tracks”.

What’s interesting is that when it comes to the workplace, a Randstad report measuring AI adoption rates put Millennials as the quickest adopters of AI in their jobs, significantly more than GenZ, Gen X, and Boomers, with 50% of Millennials using AI compared to just 19% of Boomers and 34% of Gen X.

“Their proficiency with Generation AI tools surpasses other generations, marking them as key players in the current AI landscape within workplaces”, says the report.