Videos, images and text created by generative artificial intelligence tools are turning up in elections, for sale on Amazon and even in court documents. Learning to identify the growing flood of deepfakes, along with online conspiracy theories, is becoming a rite of passage for students.
Earlier this month, about 500 hundred 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 and Jasper are two sophomores from Ballard High School. (NPR isn’t using students’ last names because they’re under 18.)
