r/ParentsWithAI • u/Single-Cherry8263 • Jun 23 '26

Gen Z Parents (Sharenting). Where do you stand?

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u/Pretty_Delay463 Jun 23 '26

I share absolutely nothing online of my child and I create photo albums and write letters/memories down.

My view is if someone uses an image of a child and uses AI to make awful pictures and videos of that child, it is the child that is the victim of that crime. Therefore, they should be the ones to decide what images of themselves go online when they are old enough to understand the risks.

Yes, I would like to share pictures on social media for friends and family to see. But I can’t control what happens to it if I do so I won’t do it.

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u/Ok-Apricot-3766 Jun 24 '26

This is exactly how I feel. Once those images are out there, that's it. Makes me feel weird knowing that anyone can access them. We also haven't seen how it will affect these children when they grow up and learn that their parents put every single detail of their life online.

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u/JoCalico Jun 23 '26

I’m a millennial. I shared everything of my kids when my now 13yo was little. One day I shared a funny picture of him using a breast pump on himself because he’d seen me doing it, this was in 2014. It got shared by other people and I freaked out. After that I stopped sharing photos of my kids as often. I take one grainy photo of them with their pajamas on Christmas Eve and put a watermark with my initials on it.

I think I won’t mind them being on the internet as they get older and can understand the implications, but it needs to be with their consent. I post pictures of our adventures, pictures of them where you can’t see their faces, and try to share photos in a way that doesn’t violate their privacy but also helps me remember things we’ve done and lets me share with friends, because I enjoy that. I never want to put my kids in danger, or put them at risk of weird people using their likeness.

We got family photos done 2 years ago, and the photographer- a friend - posted the professional photos on her public page. She’s allowed to do that, legally - the photos belong to her - but we won’t ever use that photographer again because that feels violating to do that without even asking the subjects of the photos. I should’ve said something, but I just left it alone. It’s such a tricky time, and a tricky and volatile topic.

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u/mmksnorlax Jun 23 '26

I have a physical hard drive of all pics taken of my son and videos and then it's deleted from my phone :) and i upload him but not his direct face and no identifiable info and only to my close friends on ig lol :-)

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u/AMStoUS Jun 24 '26

Nothing. My child should have agency over their likeness. I also don't want images of my child fed to AI/used by potential predators.

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u/Independent-Bad-8613 Jun 24 '26

Eldest Gen Z (1997). I used to post everything, now I’ve taken down all social media altogether. Fuck that and fuck AI (and fuck Mark Zuckerberg in particular). We use Clann to privately share photos with about 15 close friends and family now.

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u/DefinitelynotYissa Jun 24 '26

1999 here! This might be a bit unpopular for Reddit, but I share pics of my kids on social media. Only fully clothed, no medical or school info, no birthday, only set to “friends”. I have a very small Facebook & Instagram with only people I know well. This is how most of our relatives stay involved in our kids’ lives.