September 17 :: When AI Lies

WOVEN
AI & Digital Literacy
Session 2 of 4  ·  When AI Lies
UHAA  ·  United Harbor Area Association  ·  Work in pairs, one laptop per pair
⚓ Career Spotlight
Trust and Safety Analyst

Every company, every port, every newsroom runs on information, and someone has to make sure it is real. Trust and safety analysts catch fakes, scams, and manipulated media before they fool people or cause harm. As AI makes fakes cheaper and easier, this is one of the fastest-growing jobs in tech, and it starts with the skill you build today: do not trust, verify.

🎬 Watch first  ·  The era of synthetic reality

That was not really Morgan Freeman. Notice how the video says the easy tells keep changing, so the real skill is to verify, not to memorize a checklist.

🎯 Today's Mission

Catch an AI making things up, then learn to spot a fake and check it.

By the end you can
  • Explain why AI can sound confident and still be wrong
  • Spot common signs of a deepfake or fake image
  • Use one quick move to check if something is real
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🕵️ Main Challenge
Spot the fake
  1. Watch together as your teacher asks an AI a few questions with known answers. Predict first, then catch where it makes something up and says it with total confidence.
  2. Open MIT's Detect Fakes at detectfakes.kellogg.northwestern.edu. No login. Go through the examples and guess real or fake. Keep score with your partner.
  3. Look for the tells: strange eyes or blinking, blurry edges where hair meets skin, lighting that does not match, lips that are slightly off.
  4. Learn the one move: when a claim seems wild, Stop. Find the source. Check if anyone else reputable is reporting it. Open a new tab and look it up before you believe or share.
⭐ Level Up, optional
  • Find a viral image or claim online and verify it with the Stop, source, check move.
  • Try to make the AI confidently make something up on purpose. What kind of question breaks it?
🗣️ Quick Share
  • One thing the AI made up.
  • One deepfake tell you will remember.
🏁 Wrap Up

AI can be confident and wrong at the same time, and so can a video. The skill is not being fooled, checking before you believe or share. That skill is worth money in every information job.

Next time: when AI is unfair. You will find hidden bias inside a system that decided who got help, and fix it.

🧭 Career Connections
Catching fakes is a real, growing job. Here is how to get one.
🔎 Find it
  • Your UHAA mentors are your first stop. They can connect you to local tech and career programs.
  • LA Harbor College in Wilmington has tech and data pathways, close to home.
📝 Apply
  • Put this on your resume: verified media and spotted AI-generated fakes.
  • Entry level means they train you. Apply anyway.
🎤 Interview
  • Tell how you caught a fake and how you checked it.
  • Lead with careful judgment and honesty.
⭐ Your first stop: UHAA

UHAA is here to help you take the next step toward these careers, from building a resume to making real local connections. Ask your mentors, that is what they are here for.

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