{"id":21241,"date":"2025-12-17T13:37:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T12:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/17\/how-to-use-the-holidays-to-stop-our-whatsapp-aunties-falling-for-ai\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T13:37:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T12:37:32","slug":"how-to-use-the-holidays-to-stop-our-whatsapp-aunties-falling-for-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/17\/how-to-use-the-holidays-to-stop-our-whatsapp-aunties-falling-for-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use the holidays to stop our \u2018WhatsApp aunties\u2019 falling for AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Family members can be sweet and relentless but how can we aid our relatives in the age of new tech and device addiction <\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t want to sound dramatic but, a few weeks ago, something happened that has completely changed how I view online material. I fell for AI-generated content. For someone who is constantly squabbling with older relatives about how little they question what they see online, this was a profoundly unsettling and humbling experience. And it made me think about how, during this holiday period, we could all use this as an opportunity to approach those conversations with the \u201cWhatsApp aunties\u201d more sensitively.<\/p>\n

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\nI don\u2019t want to sound dramatic but, a few weeks ago, something happened that has completely changed how I view online material. I fell for AI-generated content. For someone who is constantly squabbling with older relatives about how little they question what they see online, this was a profoundly unsettling and humbling experience. And it made me think about how, during this holiday period, we could all use this as an opportunity to approach those conversations with the \u201cWhatsApp aunties\u201d more sensitively.
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