DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) - Iowa’s attorney general, Brenna Bird, issued a warning Tuesday about deepfakes as students head back to school.

Those are videos where someone’s face or voice has been altered to appear like they’re someone else. Deepfakes are often made to spread misinformation – and, sometimes, they’re lurid.

TV6 Investigates took a deeper look into deepfakes and what parents and students need to know about the dangers.

Q: How are kids using deepfakes?

The No. 1 concern of law enforcement is using deepfakes to make sexual images . An example would be swapping an ex-girlfriend’s face into a lurid video and sharing it to embarrass her.

Deepfakes rely on artificial intelligence, which is getting better and better every day, so some of these videos look real, and you can’t t

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