The bizarre rise of ‘grandmaslop’ — grandparents are filling family albums with AI images, and their…
One of the unexpected consequences of freely available AI tools like Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT has been the rise of what’s quickly becoming known as ‘grandmaslop’. It seems that grandparents are filling their family albums with AI versions of pictures of their grandchildren and sending them to their kids.
When it comes to using generative AI on family photos, at least, the trend has exposed a striking generational divide.
“I'm Gen X, but my Boomer mom made a whole AI book for both of my kids. It was bizarre,” said one Reddit user, commenting on the rise of grandmaslop. “I think the weirdest part is, if photos are our way of immortalizing a moment in time for the sake of our memories, then what is an AI-generated image, if it's a moment of time that never existed?” asked another user.
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