Your Child Can Fake Anyone. Now What?
What Grok's unfiltered AI means for Christian parents raising truth-loving kids
My stomach dropped. Grok, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, released sexually explicit content to be generated of random people, celebrities, and even children when it released its new image generation tool without standard safety filters.
The internet is now flooded with hyper-realistic images of politicians and celebrities doing things they never did. Random women involved in sex acts that they would never consent to in real life. Grok made the internet feel even less safe to women than it was before.
As Christians, we often ask if a technology is “clean” or “safe.” But with Grok, the question goes deeper. It brings us face-to-face with the Ninth Commandment:
“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor” (Exodus 20:16).
In the digital age, creating a fake image isn’t just “art”—it is a moral act. When we generate or share an image or video that depicts a lie as reality, we are participating in that false witness. We are damaging our neighbor’s reputation and eroding the shared reality that God created.
What Families Can Do: This isn’t just a tech debate; it’s a dinner table conversation. It’s an opportunity for active discipleship of your child.
Here is a quick guide for parents this week:
1. Show don’t tell: Show your teen a “deepfake” news story and ask, “How would you feel if this was a picture or video of you?”
2. The “Truth Test”: Teach your child that verifying is a spiritual discipline. Before sharing a meme or image, we stop and ask: Is this true?
3. Guard the Heart: Remind them that just because we can generate an image, doesn’t mean we should.
We need to raise a generation that loves the truth more than the “likes.”
Teach Your Child Spiritual Discernment
Spiritual discernment is the ability to distinguish between what is right and wrong. For Christians, that also means that what is right and wrong is filtered through what the Bible tells us.
Knowing this, encourage your child to spend time reading the Bible for themselves. No one can become intimately knowledgeable of the Bible without regular, deep Bible reading.
Encourage them not to rely on another’s interpretation of what the Bible says. Know it for yourself. Read it directly for yourself. Don’t even rely on AI to read it for you, you read it directly, preferably daily.
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. (Hebrews 5:12-14)
In this age of AI vomit and slop, spiritual discernment is more vital than ever.
Don’t leave this to chance and don’t delegate the responsibility of discipleship to your church. Take responsibility and invest in your child and train them to stand for what is true.
Make it a Game
Make it a game at the dinner table. Pull up obvious AI-generated images and let kids find the tells. Obviously impossible situations. Fake combinations. This builds the habit of looking before believing.
For video and images, ask the question: Where did this come from? Who posted it? Can I find it from two other sources?
The simple believes every word, but the prudent considers well his steps.
(Proverbs 14:15)
Talk about why someone would create a fake. Kids understand motivation. “Someone made this because they wanted you to feel angry” or “this was created to make you share it without thinking” lands better than abstract warnings about misinformation.
Rules for AI Content Generation:
When your child can generate a realistic photo of anyone doing anything, the question becomes, does this honor the person I’m depicting? Would I show this to them?
Practical rules parents can set:
Never generate images of real people without their knowledge and consent, period. This includes classmates, teachers, celebrities.
Before you create something, ask: am I making this to build up or tear down? The answer reveals intention, and intention is where sin lives.
If something you created could hurt someone, the right move is to delete it, not share it. Once it’s online, you’ve lost control of it.
The biggest problem the world faces with regards to AI is that they never ask whether or not they should. If they can do it, too often people just do it. A Christian must first consider the intent of the heart, then consider the impact on others.
Do not abandon your kids to the world’s values. Fight for your children now otherwise, one day you’ll wonder why they no longer believe in God or go to church.
We live in strange times. No other generation has faced this level of threat against truth. May God help you to take up His armor (Eph. 6) and fight for the minds and hearts of your child.
Joseph Duchesne writes to help Christians navigate the ethical challenges that artificial intelligence poses to the Church today while also learning positive ways to use AI. He is the author of a couple of books, The Last Crisis and Discover the One, both available on Amazon.