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- AI Transparency: AI transparency helps people access information to better understand how an artificial intelligence system was created and how it makes decisions (IBM).
- Accountability: AI accountability refers to the idea that artificial intelligence should be developed, deployed and used so that responsibility for bad outcomes can be assigned to liable parties (Carnegie Council).
- Bias: To give a settled and often prejudiced outlook to (Merriam Webster).
- Deepfake: An image or recording that has been convincingly altered and manipulated to misrepresent someone as doing or saying something that was not actually done or said (Merriam Webster).
- Disinformation: False information deliberately and often covertly spread (as by the planting of rumors) in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth (Merriam Webster).
- Ethics: The principles of conduct governing an individual or a group (Merriam Webster).
- Fact-Checking: To verify the factual accuracy of (Merriam Webster).
- Generative AI: Generative Artificial Intelligence is a system of algorithms or computer processes that can create novel output in text, images or other media based on user prompts (National Library of Medicine).
- Hallucination: AI hallucinations are incorrect or misleading results that AI models generate (Google Cloud).
- Large Language Model (LLM): Large language models, also known as LLMs, are very large deep learning models that are pre-trained on vast amounts of data (Amazon Web Services).
- Media Literacy: The ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create and act using all forms of communication (NAMLE).
- Misinformation: Incorrect or misleading information (Merriam Webster).
- Prompt Engineering: Prompt engineering is the process where you guide generative-AI solutions to generate desired outputs (Amazon Web Services).
- Source Credibility: The degree to which people believe and trust what other people and organizations tell them about a particular product or service (Cambridge Dictionary).
These videos and lessons were developed by the Poynter Institute’s MediaWise and the Teen Fact-Checking Network in partnership with PBS News Student Reporting Labs. This partnership has been made possible through our collaboration with the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation.
