Elementary School Art Contest Cancelled After Online Attacks
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A contest in Fukushima, Japan, showed drawings by young children. The drawings were about soy sauce.
The contest put the pictures on the internet. Many people saw them online.
Some people wrote bad comments. They said the drawings looked like AI made them, not children.
This is called slander. It means saying bad, untrue things about someone.
The bad comments did not stop. More and more people wrote them.
Because of this, the contest stopped showing the drawings online. They made the pictures private.
The children made the art themselves. They did not use AI.
This story shows a problem with the internet today. People can say bad things without proof.
Vocabulary5 words
- contest
- a game or event where people try to win
- internet
- a big system that connects computers around the world
- AI
- a computer program that can do smart things like a person
- slander
- saying bad, untrue things about someone
- private
- not shown to everyone; hidden
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1. Drawings by children 2. — 3. They stopped showing the drawings online
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A _____ in Fukushima, Japan, showed drawings by young _____.
The contest put the pictures on the _____. Many people saw them online.
Some people wrote bad comments. They said the drawings looked like _____ made them, not children.
This is called _____. It means saying bad, untrue things about someone.
Because of this, the contest stopped showing the drawings online. They made the pictures _____.
The children made the art _____. They did not use AI.
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