Q1 Managing Your Footprint: Vocabulary

KEY VOCABULARY

Deepfakes: Deepfakes are audio, images, and/or videos of a person in which their face, voice, or body has been digitally altered so that they appear to be someone else, typically used maliciously or to spread false information.

Digital footprint: On the Internet, a digital footprint is a word used to describe the trail, traces, or footprints that people leave online. Any time you do or write something online, a trace will remain, even if you delete it. 

Disinformation: Disinformation is false or misleading information intended to mislead, deceive, or harm others.

Empathy: Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

Fraud: Fraud is something that deceives or tricks another person.

Generative AI: Generative AI is artificial intelligence that uses machine learning algorithms to enable machines to create new or fake data or media—such as audio, code, images, text, simulations, and videos, images, text, and audio—based on the features of their training data.

Malicious: Being malicious is having or showing a desire to cause harm to someone.

Media Usage: Media usage is the sum of information and entertainment by an individual or group on the Internet.

Misinformation: False or inaccurate information that is shared, often unintentionally, without the intention to mislead (in contrast to disinformation).

Reputation: Reputation is other people's general belief or opinion about you.

Social Responsibility: Social responsibility means that individuals and companies must act in the best interests of their environment and society.