Parents loved sharing photos of their kids online. Then came AI.
MTStock Studio/Getty Images The parenting debate about how much to share photos of kids is changing because of AI.
A viral video about Meta AI's suggested questions has people worried.
Meta said they were a mistake that has been fixed.
Fears that children's photos may be used for CSAM is changing how parents and photographers share online.
The debate about whether or not to post your kids' faces on social media isn't new.
I have friends whose kids are in college now who I remember struggled with the decision about whether to post baby photos to Instagram.
But very recently, that conversation has taken a significant turn because of concerns about AI — and even prompted Meta to take action.
Two viral things have happened on Instagram in the last week or so, with pretty different origins but ultimately the same result: parents saying that they shouldn't post images of their children online anymore.
The first was a viral Instagram from Kalie Robins, a mom in Utah.
Robins was shocked and creeped out when she noticed Meta AI suggestions on a video she had posted of herself and her kid.
The Meta AI chatbot suggested questions like "who's the child passenger?" Following more of the Meta AI questions, Robins found that it pulled photos of her that she believed had been deleted, and information about her kids from her mother's Facebook page.
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kalie | Travel Mom Creator (@kontheinside) While yes, Meta AI was pulling information that already exists online, it was also suggesting questions about the identity of children — potentially suggesting that to strangers (it's unclear if only Kalie saw this set of Meta AI questions or if a stranger would have been suggested different ones).
Meta told me that these AI suggestions were a mistake that had since been fixed.
"When someone clicks on a prompt and uses this feature, the response it generates is based on information the user already has access to," said Meta spokesperson Andy Stone.
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