Social
Deepfake
Risk flagAI-generated content — video, audio, or images — fabricated to look real. The version parents are encountering at schools is fake nude images: a classmate's face placed on a nude body using an app downloaded from the App Store. Creating or sharing these images is image-based sexual abuse and can carry criminal charges even between minors.
How kids use it
School incidents; news coverage; a parent discovering their child was targeted or is using these tools. Over 600 young people across 90 schools in 28 countries have been identified as victims since 2023.
Is “Deepfake” something to worry about?
"Deepfake" can be a signal worth watching in context — see the definition above for what it points to.
- Use it slightly wrong at dinner. You’ll get an eye-roll and a free vocabulary lesson.
- If you’re seeing it alongside apps you don’t recognize, run the 30-second check Is it safe? checker →