AI Scraping Tools Fuel Rising Risk of Online Impersonation and ‘Sharenting’ Abuse

Dr Kanishk Gaur, CEO of Athenian Tech, warned that AI-powered open source intelligence tools are scraping images and videos to build data that gets sold to companies, saying “keeping social media accounts private is the first big step.” He flagged WhatsApp impersonation and “sharenting” — parents sharing children’s photos — as growing risks, since it creates “a massive digital footprint that is not of their own making.”