In June 2025, Filipino influencer Queen Hera reported that a photo of her infant daughter originally posted online, was discovered at a pornographic website.

The child’s face had reportedly been digitally manipulated into explicit material,and the image was being sold for 1,500 pesos.

A mother from Bicol discovered that someone had taken her baby's photo from her Facebook Story and used it in a fabricated sob story on Threads to solicit money.

The stranger also invented personal circumstances about the mother and child.
Her original post was only a 'My Day' on Facebook, which disappears after 24 hours. She didn’t even own a Threads account before the photo-grabbing incident.

Human Rights Watch reported that it had identified 190 photos of children in the LAION-5B dataset, which contains billions of image and text records used in AI development.

Some photos included children's names, ages, and preschool information in their captions or associated URLs. HRW warned that such images could contribute to AI tools being used to create convincing manipulated images of children.

You might think kids are sharing too much on social media, but in many cases it's parents who are doing it, even with their kids complaining that their moms and dads are revealing way too much.

"…my mom has posted literally every aspect of my life … If we get in a fight, she's on FB asking for advice. I feel like I have absolutely no privacy. I can't talk to my own mother for fear she'll post it on social media. I'm her child, not her dog."