The unseen threat facing Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis as they near high school: social media, mobile phones and AI-generated images | Royal Briefing vodcast

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If Prince George is preparing to start high school later this year, he and his two siblings are confronted with an unprecedented situation that their parents never faced as students: social media and AI.

‘It’s almost like this The Truman Show for these children,” nine.com.au says entertainment editor Nicole Douglas in the latest episode of the new vodcast Royal briefing.

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Prince George, Princess Charlotte And Prince Louis will have to deal with the issue of mobile phones, something that was unheard of when Prince William and Prince Harry started at Eton in the 1990s, says Nine.com.au Royal reporter Natalie Oliveri.

“[Back then] there was an agreement between the palace and the media that the children would be left alone,” says Oliveri Royal briefing.

“And when William went to college, that similarity continued.”

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“Now it’s so different because there’s social media. Every student has a phone. Everyone has access to social media.

“Welsh children will be faced with the bizarre reality of potentially being filmed in class or going out with their friends – things their parents did not have to deal with.

“I think it will be very, very difficult for them to deal with this.”

Recently, the Prince and Princess of Wales were spotted visiting one boarding school for Princess Charlotte. Kensington Palace will soon announce where Prince George will be attending when the new school year starts in September, shortly after his 13th birthday in July.

Douglas believes there is a more worrying issue that the children, and all royals in general, will face in the coming months and years.

“With all this AI content, these royals are going to have to live in a world where you don’t know what’s real and what’s fake,” says Douglas.

“You don’t know who to believe, who to trust. We live in a futuristic world with this really old-fashioned system [the monarchy]. And I’m just afraid that we’re preparing these kids for a world that’s about 50 years out of date.”

Oliveri points to a recent example of this AI-generated images of Princess Elisabeth of Belgium and another royal family, sparking rumors of a romance that was quickly shut down by the palace.

“She actually had to come out and deny that she was dating this person from another royal family because there were AI-generated photos of them all over social media.”

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