Deepfake and AI Content Talk

Increasingly, you cannot, and detection advice based on visual artefacts has aged badly within months. The durable approach is provenance: who published it, where else it appears, and whether any established outlet has covered it.

Report it to the platform and to the police, keep evidence rather than deleting, and make clear to the child that this was done to them. Fabricated sexual images of real people, including minors, are illegal in a growing number of jurisdictions.

Around four or five, in the simplest form — that computers can make pictures of things that never happened. It is the same conversation as the one about cartoons, and starting early makes the later versions much easier.