Teens like me don’t trust AI-generated content. Here’s why

Editor’s note: Mary Frances Ruskell is a senior at Heathwood Hall Episcopal School in Columbia, South Carolina.

My friend Sammy turned around at his desk and grinned at me. He held out his phone and waved it in front of my face, the universal sign for “Look at this!” It was a video of a capybara in a swimming pool, seemingly treading water like a human does, feet down and arms circling.

Last year, I would have believed the post I saw on that screen and accepted it as part of what I know…