June 11, 2025
In light of recent developments in generative AI, many suggest that information about the way content was created (by AI or otherwise) can be a proxy for assessing trust. However, “Is this AI-generated?” is not equivalent to “Is this trustworthy?”
This workshop will engage you in an exercise to test information literacy, as well as popular assumptions about how to tell if something is AI-generated.
It will present tools that provide access to information about content you encounter online, with the goal to help equip you with the necessary information to make determinations about what to trust and improve overall information literacy.
You will learn about approaches to information literacy that focus on making more contextual and provenance information about content available to users. This includes tools that provide assertive content provenance information, such as SynthID and content watermarking standards, as well as tools for inferred context information, such as the About This Image and About This Result features on Google Search.
The goals of this workshop are to explore how making information available to users about content can help strengthen information literacy skills and improve resilience to misinformation and empower users to make decisions about what to trust online.