Grandparents Are Endangering Children By Posting 'Grandmaslop' AI Photos
HuffPost · Ash Jurberg ·
“I’m going to have to figure out how to stop it without starting a nuclear war.”
On her daughter’s first day of third grade, Holly Ostrout sent a few photos to her stepmother. One showed her daughter and her best friend standing in front of the school, its name clear in the background. Less than 20 minutes later, Ostrout’s stepmother sent back a series of AI cartoons of the two girls. “The school name was huge in all of them and so were their own names, as if it was cartoon Glamour Shots of the two of them in different poses and classes,” Ostrout said.
“I felt so weird about it because I don’t put my kid’s face or name on the internet, much less her school,” she said. “I had a stalker about 20 years ago, and I operate under the assumption that he is always out there, scoping. And then suddenly, my kid, her personally identifying details, and her friend were delivered right into ChatGPT.”
The trend has a name online: “grandmaslop.” The term gained traction from a Reddit thread where adult children swapped the AI pictures their parents were making of grandkids. The grandparents mean well, but parents often find out only when the finished picture arrives.
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