A disgruntled ex-athletics director at a northern Baltimore County Public School used artificial intelligence to impersonate the voice of his boss, the high school’s principal, then posted the racist and antisemitic hate rant on social media to share with the world.
Baltimore County Police Chief Robert McCullough told reporters his investigators worked with FBI agents and experts from the University of California at Berkeley to determine that a recording of Pikesville High School principal Eric Eiswert, circulating on social media since January, was generated with AI tools by Dazhon Darien, the school’s athletic director, to retaliate against the principal for not renewing his work contract and an investigation into the mishandling of school funds.
On Thursday, McCullough said his investigation found that “Dazhon Darien, the school’s athletic director, produced the recording to retaliate against Principal Eiswert, who had initiated a probe into the mishandling of school funds.”
Local media outlet WBFF’s investigative i-Team arm, Project Baltimore, originally obtained the audio recording, which is 41 seconds long, beginning with racially charged language about black students.
“I seriously don’t understand why I have to constantly put up with these dumb***** here every day,” the AI impersonated voice of the principle said, adding,
“Between these ungrateful black kids who can’t test their way out of a paper bag or these teachers who don’t get it. How hard is it to get these students to meet their grade level expectations?”
This is dangerous stuff. Like the( Me Too )movement. Make a claim and it’s taken as the truth. Lord help us.
Good grief…..govt has been testing AI for years….Knowing full well the dangers with it. This is an example….deep fakes are another. The tech is only getting better day by day.
Separate topic but relevant…..local LEOs going to digital communications so the public (bad guys) can’t hear the calls. Hello Einsteins, the money spent so bad guys can’t hear…..will only be “trumped” when scanner tech becomes available to the public. Then what?
Build tech better and smarter may be good at 1st, but is always cracked eventually. Cmon man!
AI is dangerous & criminals will Love it !!!!!
I tried to warn you morons, that this tech is not what you want. But you all think you know it all. Now you can have stuff done to you or your bank or private PC and it will look more real than if the FBI put it there their ownself. I tried to tell you, it can hack anything and make things even better than real scammers can. And you will never have a way of knowing who did what and when, or why and with what.
Just like with robots, I told you they would be coming to take your job and they are, every day. And then just couple that with AI, and you all laughed when a few of us predicted Terminator stuff to happen in the future. And by the way morons, Skynet already exists, look it up, they have a gov’t website for it. I seen that years ago.
Jack, you sound suspiciously like an AI deepfake!
Hey jack, How about telling us on here what the future will bring before it actually happens, instead of telling us what you predicted after it happens.
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Democrats will use it on Trump !!!!!