Deepfakes and AI-Generated Content
Your child knows AI can make fake photos and text that look real. These are called deepfakes. They know to check if something online is true.
In curriculum terms
Deepfakes, AI-generated images and text; how to spot them and why they matter; the importance of checking sources; not everything online is real
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How to tell they’ve got it
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If your child saw an amazing photo online, would they think to question whether it might have been created by AI rather than captured by a camera?
Where this sits on the map
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).