{"id":2335,"date":"2024-04-27T11:52:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T11:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/27\/disgruntled-school-worker-accused-of-using-ai-to-create-fake-recording-of-principal-on-racist-rant\/"},"modified":"2024-04-27T11:52:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T11:52:01","slug":"disgruntled-school-worker-accused-of-using-ai-to-create-fake-recording-of-principal-on-racist-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/27\/disgruntled-school-worker-accused-of-using-ai-to-create-fake-recording-of-principal-on-racist-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Disgruntled school worker accused of using AI to create fake recording of principal on racist rant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A high school athletics director\u00a0has been accused of using AI to create a fake recording of the principal going on a racist and antisemitic rant.<\/p>\n

Dazhon Darien allegedly impersonated Eric Eiswert’s voice with artificial intelligence<\/strong>, in a clip that went viral and was widely shared on social media.<\/p>\n

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In the forged audio, it sounded as if the principal had said “ungrateful” black students “couldn’t test their way out of a paper bag” – and had also disparaged Jewish people.<\/p>\n

Detectives believe Darien faked the clip in revenge following a conversation about his poor work performance, and a suggestion that his contract at the school would not be renewed.<\/p>\n

Those talks had followed allegations that Darien had paid his roommate about \u00a31,500 ($1,900) in school funds under the false pretence of coaching the girls’ soccer team.<\/p>\n

Court documents said the recording had “profound implications” – with Mr Eiswert suspended, his family left at “significant risk” and police officers providing security at his house.<\/p>\n

It also triggered a wave of hate-filled messages on social media and a flood of phone calls to Pikesville High School in Baltimore County, Maryland<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Charging documents stated: “Teachers have expressed fears that recording devices could have been planted in various places in the school.”<\/p>\n

Mr Eiswert had insisted he did not make the remarks – and a detective found Darien used large language models such as OpenAI<\/strong> and Bingchat<\/strong>, which can “tell users what steps to take to create synthetic media”.<\/p>\n

Officials say this is one of the first cases of its kind in the US – and are calling for new laws to guard against the technology as AI becomes more powerful.<\/p>\n

Scott Shellenberger, the Baltimore County state’s attorney, added: “We also need to take a broader look at how this technology can be used and abused to harm other people.”<\/p>\n

Darien was arrested on Wednesday evening before he boarded a plane at an airport in Baltimore.<\/p>\n

A professor from the University of Colorado-Denver told detectives the recording “contained traces of AI-generated content with human editing after the fact, which added background noises for realism”.<\/p>\n

A second opinion from a professor at the University of California-Berkeley told police that “multiple recordings were spliced together”.<\/p>\n

Officials in Baltimore County are now recommending that Darien’s position at the school be terminated.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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