Digital Deepfakes and Children’s Rights: How AI Technology Creates New Legal Vulnerabilities for Parents Who Share Online

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Parents face new legal and A.I. risks from posting kids’ photos online; here’s how to prevent misuse and use right-of-publicity, DMCA, and platform tools to respond.

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In an era where artificial intelligence can generate hyper-realistic content from a single photograph, parents who share images of their children online face unprecedented legal and privacy risks. Recent federal litigation, including Tony Robbins’ lawsuit against YesChat.ai over unauthorized AI chatbot replicas, demonstrates how rapidly AI technology can exploit personal likenesses without consent.

For parents, these developments signal a critical need to reassess their digital sharing practices as bad actors increasingly weaponize AI tools to monetize children’s images through unauthorized commercial applications.

By Samuel Lopez – USA Herald

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The intersection of artificial intelligence and children’s privacy has reached a legal tipping point, forcing parents to confront uncomfortable realities about the digital footprints they create for their children. What began as innocent family sharing has evolved into a complex web of potential exploitation that traditional privacy laws struggle to address.