Fake or Real? Pictures and Videos

1. What your child learns and why

Practise checking before trusting or sharing: who made it, where else it appears and whether it makes sense; the aim is to explain a next check rather than guess “true or false”.

2. Three questions for dinner

• “What would you ask the invitation’s creator?”
• “How would you tell another account from a copy?”
• “What could you say when you do not know yet?”

3. 10 minutes together, no screen — “Two sources”

Choose a claim from a cutting or family story without personal details; look for another magazine, book or witness; compare how they know and whether they repeat the same account; without confirmation, leave it “unchecked”.

4. What success looks like

Your child names a next check and accepts “I don’t know yet”. They make “My detector”, a card with the three questions for a younger child.

5. Common difficulties

“An odd hand means AI!” → “What else could we check?”; “Everyone shows it!” → “Separate checks, or copies?” You do not need to know the answers: “Let’s check together.”

6. Safety

Use the fictional drawings and ready cuttings, without uploading personal photos or creating a child’s account; help with scissors if cutting; say: “If something scares you, tell a grown-up you trust.”

7. Where to go next

Before: DB-IB-09 “My Trail Online: What Stays” · Next: DB-IB-11 “Asking AI - and Checking”

For parents · source S1

Article 50 of the EU AI Act provides for providers to mark generated or manipulated content in a machine-readable way and for deployers of systems creating deep fakes to disclose artificial generation or manipulation, but this does not guarantee that everything is marked — keep checking for yourself (S1, supplied summary; unofficial overview: artificialintelligenceact.eu, official text: EUR-Lex).