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AI technology has been used to frame a principal to paint him as a racist. A black high school coach used this new-fangled technology AI to try and make his white principal sound racist. Well, he didn’t try. He did make him sound racist.
And you know how the rest of the story went down. The principal is removed from his position. The school receives backlash. The principal and his family are labeled racist because the audio is solid evidence, and so they also receive threats to their lives.
While all of that did happen. It was all because of a lie, thanks to AI.
The Coach: Dhazon Darien
The Principal: Eric Eiswert
The principal investigated the coach’s misuse of school funds, and the coach decided to retaliate.
A Maryland school athletic director was arrested at BWI-Marshall Airport after it was discovered that he had allegedly spread an AI-generated impersonation of the Pikesville High School principal that framed the principal as being racist. Dhazon Darien, 31, is looking at many charges due to the deepfake, including stalking, theft, disruption of school operations, and retaliation against a witness. – The Post Millennial
The Baltimore County Police Department conducted a monthlong and thorough investigation, and good on them for doing so. There are so many possibilities that something like this would not have been investigated, and the audio recording could have been simply taken as factual.
The AI-generated audio clip can still be found online. Here it is. And it is frightening because it sounds natural.
The audio clip spread over social media, and the backlash was brutal. The school received all kinds of hate-filled messages and threats, and the principal and his family were being harassed due to the fake audio clip.
The wild, headline-making details of this case aside, it emphasizes the serious potential for criminal misuse of artificial intelligence that experts have been warning about for some time, said Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who specializes in digital forensics. – NPR.org
No kidding! In today’s technology-ridden world, with the rise of AI, we may need a new category of department or unit to do these types of investigations at a more local level. This is going to become very tricky in the future.
Speaking of AI:
Speaking of AI
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But in all seriousness, the future, with AI in it, could be very disastrous. This one small story proves it. Although, the story isn’t so small for two people: Dhazon Darien and Eric Eiswert.
It’s also not just criminality we have to worry about regarding AI. Remember when Google decided to erase history and show you a new one with no white people?
It appears Google employees are constantly misbehaving.
Seriously, I can’t stop laughing Apparently Google never heard the expression, “Your chickens have come home to roost.” Their search engine is designed to create woke radical views. They’ve actively participated in swaying elections results. Created Gemini, an AI device so… pic.twitter.com/am30cKfsIL
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This case in Maryland with the coach creating fake audio of the principal using racial slurs is telling. And the principal is lucky they had someone with the level head and wherewithal to look more closely at this accusation.
Technology is going to evolve, grow, and bustle—it’s just the facts. We’ve become obsessed with such things. After all, man has a brain to use, but sometimes, he doesn’t use it wisely.
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Scott says: Hopefully the principal not only presses charges, but civilly sues both the racist black coach, and the school district for as much as he can get! This will not stop until the consequences are truly painful for those that play these “games”
GWB says: I doubt the school district will be forced to pay. It would have to be based on “a reasonable man” being able to tell those recordings were not true, or would be horribly out of character for the principal. And, given the current religion of almost everyone in education – Progressivism, specifically the DEI cult – they will never be able to see it was out of character.
GWB says: Perhaps we need a new type of private investigator – someone who busts fakers. Give him a directed EMP weapon and a head full of tech, and let him go after the bad guys and make them pay for their slander.
Cameron says: “But it could have been real and that’s why the principal got in trouble.”
AI will lead to the death of circumstantial evidence. If we couple that to the growing disinclination of attorneys and jurors to believe the statements of witnesses, the future of justice looks bleak indeed.
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