Deepfakes! When You Can't Trust What You See Anymore
About this episode
Schnelle Acevedo discusses the implications of deepfakes and the importance of teaching children to question the authenticity of digital content.
A few episodes ago, we talked about how social media algorithms work. But here's the thing: all of that assumes what you're seeing is real . And increasingly? It's not." Schnelle dives into deepfakes—AI-generated videos and images so convincing you cannot tell they're fake. This isn't future technology. This is happening now, and it's getting scarier by the month. What are deepfakes? Videos, images, or audio created using AI to make it look like someone said or did something they never actually did. The technology is now so sophisticated that even experts struggle to identify them. Why this matters now: Your kids are seeing this content on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram right now. And unless we teach them to question what they see, they're going to believe it. The creepy celebrity deepfakes: Tools like Sora (from OpenAI) generate incredibly realistic video from text descriptions. People are creating videos of dead celebrities—Tupac, Robin Williams, Marilyn Monroe—in new content. Schnelle finds this deeply unsettling. Not just ethically (these people can't consent), but because it normalizes the idea that videos aren't real. If everything can be fake, then nothing has to be real. How…
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