🎯 What you will learn
- What deepfakes and voice clones are
- How scammers use AI
- How to verify what you see and hear
👋 Let’s get started!
AI can now create fake photos, videos and even voices that look and sound real 🎭. That’s amazing for movies — and dangerous in the wrong hands. Let’s learn to stay one step ahead.
🪜 Step by step
1. 🎭 Deepfakes
Deepfakes are AI-made videos or images that put someone’s face or voice into something they never did.
2. 📞 Voice-clone scams
Scammers can copy a voice from a short clip and call pretending to be a family member in trouble.
3. 🔍 Spot the clues
Look for weird blinking, blurry edges, mismatched lighting or lips out of sync. But remember: good fakes may have no clues.
4. 🗝️ Family safe word
Agree on a secret family word to confirm it’s really them in an emergency call.
5. ✅ Verify before you share
Check trusted news sources and reverse image search before believing or sharing.
📖 Key words
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- Deepfake
- AI-created fake video or image 🎭
- Voice clone
- An AI copy of someone’s voice 🗣️
- Misinformation
- False information spread by mistake or on purpose 📰
- Verification
- Checking if something is true ✅
🎨 Practice activity
👪 Create a family safe word together and practice a pretend “emergency call” where you have to ask for it.
🖐️ Try it yourself
- Agree on a family safe word 🗝️
- Do a reverse image search on a viral photo 🔍
- Find two trusted news sources 📰
- Teach a younger kid one deepfake clue 🧒
Knowledge Check Quiz
- What is a deepfake?
- A caller sounds like your cousin and urgently asks for money. What do you do?
- Before sharing a shocking video you should…