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?”
🚨#WATCH: As a High School Athletic Director Arrested for Attempting to Frame Principal with AI-Generated Audio Fabricating Anti-Black and Antisemitic Conversation
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On Thursday morning, Darien was arrested 30 miles south at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport on an outstanding warrant. ABC 13 News said he now faces charges that include stalking, disruption of school operations, and retaliation against a witness. He’s being held in custody on a $5,000 bond.
The principal was removed from his position as the investigation played out. BCPS officials said he would not return for the remainder of the school year.
Eiswert denied responsibility for the audio during the multi-month investigation, telling police Darien was the culprit.
According to charging documents, Darien’s attempt to sabotage the principal with AI was motivated by “his contract not being renewed next semester due to frequent work performance challenges” and the unauthorized use of school funds.
Just wait until AI is weaponized against a politician or presidential candidate. It’s coming.
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Ah, here come some new food deserts, then?
YES, Boo Boo, it is ALWAYS them!!
I live here in Maryland.. the initial tape was leaked a while ago.. the local news was calling the principal guilty and the natives harassing this poor man assumed guilty. Death threats and student protesting.. another smullet case, like most of them.
Pretty smart for a negro.
Natural stupidity, aided by artificial intelligence?
Where’s the lie?
Nigga pulleeze: unintended self-disclosure. What an imbecile. He will be superintendent of Baltimore schools before this is over.
Stuporintendent
You have won the Internet for the weekend.
Poppycock.
AI is designed not to return any type of racist or antisemitic commentary.
There may be something to this story, but that single element is absolutely false.
ChatGPT was used–it has a program that you can use a sample of someone’s voice and then type in what you want said in the downloaded voice
I dare you.
Go ahead and type in something racist for it to generate and post a link, let’s see if it will comply with your request. I’m betting no.
Most schools now have Computer/Film labs complete with voice synthesizer programs, and with just a quick search, I found this one that will let you say anything, using anyone’s voice, with their permission of course…wink …wink…nudge…nudge…
https://elevenlabs.io/
lol it sure does! It spouted out “Fuck off Nigger Kike!” in a pleasant male english accent.
AI is complete BULLSHIT like the FAKE VIRUS CRISIS.
Niggerhole merca is FAKE and STAGED !
You can send a foo foo to college, provide him with a certificate of education, but you can’t train him to think. He never dreamed that the AI he used to create the fake, can also be used to spot the fake. smh.
But, Wide-Ass knows an orc….reeee
http://www.fakehatecrimes.org
NIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGER………..
Sad how the democrat party took a sweet and gentle boy like me and turned him into an absolute NIGGER-HATER.
The coon bein’ a coon.
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