AIBU to ask grandparents to fully remove our child's photos on social media? With the recent developments in AI

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With the recent warnings over AI i want the 15-20 photos our child has had posted of them on our grandparents fully removed from social media. They have take a few down but thinking of asking for their phones to make sure all are fully removed as I do not think they know there is some in the all photos albulms. Photos are from birth to about 2.5 years old.

Their profiles are private so the risk is minimised but still not fully gone.

Are we being over the top asking for their phones to help fully remove the remaining? We have sent them the news article on the recent developments with AI so they understand.

Just got a feeling we might be taking it a bit too far? But at the same time very concerned with what people can potentially do with photos now with AI.

Been worrying ourselves after reding this news article. How concerned is everyone else with a few photos on private profiles? Is anyone else taking steps? https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/03/ai-sexual-abuse-fears-uk-parents-warned-posting-images-children-national-crime-agency

Has anyone also used facebooks removal process if so how did it go and do they ask anything extra? This is the form https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/516343134409068

Hi Thehop,

Do you think that only showing that back of the children (the way Carrie Johnson does on her Instagram) is a reasonable approach?

Thanks.

not quite

Your child WILL be on social media - unless you remove them from all sports day, sports clubs, birthday parties etc

Take 2 parent per child (sometimes grand-parents), that will have videos of their own child and your child because he's right there. Multiply by the number of kids in the class/ clubs etc.

It's our job to protect our child and their privacy, but you need to be realistic. No need to be dramatic to grand-parents and demand to take their phone to check what's on their.

Hope you don’t have any photos of you on any social media OP, what with the advance of AI. “They” could manipulate the photos of you.

I sympathise with you wanting to protect your children in this way, but unfortunately the ship has sailed when it comes to images which have once been online. Facebook reserves the right to keep and use any photos users post, I imagine other SM sites are similar.
If you can't trust relatives and friends not to put photos online, it might be best to print some copies every few months and only distribute them on paper.

Thank you for saying this.

Do they wear a veil in public? If not yabu.