Videos, images and texts created by generative artificial-intelligence tools have been found in court documents, in Amazon sales, in election results, and even on the internet. It is now a requirement for students to learn how to distinguish the deepfakes that are flooding in, as well as online conspiracy theories.
Earlier this month, about 500 high school students were milling about a cavernous ballroom on the University of Washington’s Seattle campus, just as the annual MisInfo Day event was about to begin.
Isabella Jasper are both sophomores attending Ballard High School. (NPR isn’t using students’ last names because they’re under 18.)
Both consider themselves relatively savvy online, but admit it’s getting harder to figure out what they’re seeing online… especially the realistic images created by AI tools.
“I feel like…being able to use AI to make images is definitely sort of problematic,” says Jasper.
“I’m actually not that confident,” said Isabella. “I feel like I’ll like fall for really stupid things and I’ll be like, ‘Oh, how did I not know this is not real?’”
Exaggeration and spin are not the same as outright lies
Since its founding in 2019, MisInfo Day has grown into one of the nation’s best known media literacy events for high school…
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