Parents Are AI-Generating Pictures of Their Kids Instead of Paying for School Photos

Futurism • October 6, 2026 • entertainment

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Increasingly, parents are using generative AI tools like ChatGPT to create school portraits, bypassing traditional school photographers and saving $25 to $60 on photo packages.
The process involves taking simple photos of children against plain backgrounds and using AI prompts to generate school-style portraits with typical background effects.
Some parents also use AI to remove watermarks from sample school photos, avoiding additional fees for cleaned-up images.
However, uploading children's images to corporate AI models raises privacy and ethical concerns, as these images may be used to train future AI systems without parental control or image retrieval.
Experts suggest that parents concerned about privacy might be better off taking their own photos rather than relying on AI-generated school portraits.

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