The eight-year-old who wasn't buying it

I decided to change things up this New Year and flew out to Monaco for New Year's Eve to host a private DJ set at one of my favourite boutique hotels.

Or did I?

No. Not quite. The power of AI.

I saw a standard "DJ Happy New Year" template the other day on one of the all-in-one AI platforms and decided to mess about with it. I fed it my standard photo, the one on my LinkedIn profile, and the image was its first-pass output. Does the job, doesn't it?

Would anyone believe it? I don't necessarily think so. It might have raised a slight smile as you scrolled past, because we are all getting pretty good at spotting these kinds of images now.

What I found more interesting was how my children reacted. I have two boys, aged 15 and 13, and a girl aged 8.

When I showed the two boys, they both smiled briefly and thought it was marginally interesting. Useful for about two or three seconds of haha value. "Good try, dad."

My eight-year-old? She didn't believe it. Immediately.

"That's not you, is it?" she asked.

I stayed silent while she looked, and suggested I had done some DJing the other night.

She wasn't buying it. At all.

"No, it's one of those computery ones," she concluded after a few seconds, and walked away.

Like the teenagers, I think she appreciated the tiny dopamine hit of ultra mild interest, and that was it.

This does bode well. It's interesting how naturally suspicious my children already are when it comes to these sorts of things. The generation that will spend its entire working life around synthetic media appears to be arriving with the scepticism pre-installed, which is more than can be said for a lot of boardrooms.