Can You Hide a Child's Face from A.I.?

For similar reasons, I assume many are already using generative AI on contemporary photos of each other to create embarrassing (and in some cases also unlawful) imagery, just like adults have long done with politicians and other celebrities — when we got a single-channel ISDN line in secondary school, some of us regularly stayed late to use the internet. On one occasion, I turned around and saw that one of my peers was looking at an image of Sarah Michelle Gellar's face photoshopped on top of a pornographic nude, and I assume things like that (but with each others' faces) are happening in most schools this year given how easy it is to find and use unrestricted models. Some might even be some using classic shock-site imagery as the base, too, though at least I never heard about those when I was still at school, so perhaps, I hope, that particular innocence may remain…

I don't know how much this is just me getting old, versus the world changing ever-faster (especially as both are real effects), but I'm definitely finding myself increasingly weirded-out by the negative social implications of all the technological change. When I was a kid, all the changes technology brought seemed to be positive.