This story appeared across the world's news media and describes another danger that children face online. Artificial Intelligence is certainly a powerful tool for good, such as medical imaging improvments, analysis of complex scientific data and more. As with many advanced technologies it can be dangerous in the wrong hands.
Children are vulnerable to false information, as are many adults, because it is often difficult to determine what is real and what is false.
This story is an example of AI generated images used to promote racism and hate.
Similar images are appearing in online forums and posts to promote fake news stories to support radical agendas. Young people and vulerable adults can be targetted by race hate groups, anarchists and anti democracy individuals and organisations.
An important role of parents will be to ensure their chilren undestand the risks of AI and how to check to see if what they are seeing and reading is real.
Monitoring what children are encountering online is an effective way of checking what sort of material they come across.
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