A I technology is creeping into schools and that is really alarming for parents.
In the past few months,
there have been incidents across the country of
explicit deep fake pictures from celebrities to teenagers.
So our parenting expert, Doctor Cheryl Ziegler is joining us.
Um, we've been talking about a I it's scary, scary,
scary for everybody in every industry.
But how, how big of a deal is this for our kids and, and should parents be worried?
I think parents need to be informed,
they really need to know how much this is going on.
So I'd say since even just December till now there are these big high
profile cases and in which it's not just maybe one person that's targeted,
but it's a whole group of them and we're talking middle school.
So some of them are high schools, but some of them are middle schools.
We've seen stories with celebrities
and um you know, recently we saw the Taylor Swift issue go on.
So it's, it's sort of hitting everybody.
And I think for parents the first and foremost,
they need to understand what is a deep fake
because I don't know if everybody knows that terminology,
right?
So that's altering an image or a voice to seem so real.
It was, it's almost undetectable.
Um and then using that to spread rumors and in particular,
it really seems to be going at girls and having sort of naked photos of them.
So it's devastating.
So to,
I wonder how schools can get involved,
this is kind of out of their orbit when you're talking about a,
a social media presence, the, the schools may be a good venue for,
for discussing this or preparing people, but
they're not gonna be able to manage this. Teachers and schools are, are not gonna be
able to help.
Yeah, I mean,
I see the schools is under a tremendous amount
of pressure because they have to deal with.
First of all, it was first A I and chat G BT like, how are we gonna do papers?
How are we gonna grade papers? Right. It started off with academics, right.
And now it's, it flowing into this. I'd say that I've looked at all those cases.
There was Beverly Hills, there was Illinois, there were a couple of Miami big,
big ones and it seems like the level
of involvement between school and law enforcement varies
and whether the states have any kinds of bills or legislation, like in the works,
even laws passed around it.
So it seems like I tried to look it up.
Seems like Colorado, they've been talking about it on the floor.
Um, I don't know if we have anything passed yet.
So it's a combo of law enforcement and then
school policies changing and updating themselves very quickly.
Well, I think of the emotional trauma right away what it would do.
Um, yeah, if you thought somebody had pictures of you that, that aren't real.
But what, what do you do you contact police is that, I mean,
ask your parents get police involved right away or?
Yeah,
think, I think without a doubt this is, you know, depending on the law and again,
the state, the way it's written, it's really important.
I think parents need to, of course, report and contact police,
but parents also need to be educated on this.
They need to talk to their kids about these kinds of things.
If you see something, you have to report it right away.
And I think the biggest takeaway really is
we've got to keep up with this technology and
the possible ways that it affects us and
know what school policies and all those things are
just to be armed the best that we can as of today.
It's, and you think about it because everything happens here or it
could happen anywhere around the world.
So, whereas it could be a student doing this to another student if you will,
it also might be someone in Bolivia, Romania doing this just for sport if you will.
That,
what are you gonna do about that? Yeah. Well, Right.
And that's a whole another layer that I'm sure
people are dealing with probably celebrities right now.
More so dealing with that.
I think that actually what's even more hurtful though is when it is a
peer in all those cases that I talked about middle and high schools.
It's like, oh my gosh, that's a kid.
I sit next to in science or that's somebody who I kind of know or maybe don't even know.
But we are a part of a community. And so I think that's even more hurtful.
But regardless, this is something that's targeting girls,
it's really exploiting them.
It doesn't seem like this is going to stopping at any point.
So even if we have to say, hey, educate all kids about this is not the use of A I,
this is not what we want you using this for because we have to remember.
We also wanna prevent our kid from being the one who's doing it.
Right.
Yeah. The one that's doing the bad, the bad deeds.
Oh, that's so scary. But glad you talked about it. We gotta keep talking about it.
Thank you, Doctor
Ziegler.