A former athletic director in a high school in the Baltimore area, who was accused of using artificial intelligence to create a racist and anti -Semitic sound clip that launches that the school principal was sentenced to four months in prison.
Former Director Dazhon Darien, 32, said guilty of annoying school businesses, a charge of misdemeanors, according to the Baltimore County State Public Prosecutor. Mr Darien has previously faced additional categories, including theft, pursuit and retaliation against a witness.
According to the Associated Press, Mr Darien has introduced an Alford objection to the worrying category of school businesses, which allows the defendants to maintain their innocence while begging guilty.
Mr Darien, the former Athletic Director of the Pikesville Gymnasium, created an acoustic clip that included a Rant for “Unexpected Black Kids who cannot try their way from a paper bag” and discourage comments for Jewish students. According to police records, the sound was an attempt to accelerate the school master, Eric Eiswert.
According to the statement of the events, Mr Eiswert said there were “talks” with Mr Darien about the fact that his contract was not renewed because of his “poor performance at school, his inability to clearly follow his procedures and reluctance to follow the chain”. Problems with Mr Darien began in late 2023, which led to the liberation of sound, according to the statement.
A lawyer listed for Mr Darien did not respond to calls and messages on Tuesday. The Baltimore County Public Schools declined to comment on the case. The efforts to achieve Mr Eiswert on Tuesday were unsuccessful.
Following his conviction, Mr Darien returned to federal editing as he faces charges of sexually exploiting children and receiving child pornography.
The constructed record, posted on Instagram in January 2024, quickly spread, Roiling Baltimore County Public Schools, which serve more than 100,000 students. While the Region investigated, Mr Eiswert, who refused to make the comments, had multiple threats to his safety, police said. It was also placed on the administrative license, the school district said.
According to police documents, Mr Darien developed a complaint against Mr Eiswert in December after the manager began investigating him. Mr Darien had authorized a $ 1,916 regional payment to his roommate, police said: “Under the pretense” that the roommate was working as an assistant coach for the Pikesville girls’ football team.
Shortly thereafter, police said, Mr Darien used the internet area services to search for artificial intelligence tools, including Openai, Chatgpt Chatbot developer and Microsoft’s Bing conversation.
(The New York Times sued Openai and her partner, Microsoft, in December 2023 for infringement of copyright of the AI ​​-related news -related content.)
A public defender representing Mr Darien refused to comment on the case.
It has never been easier to create realistic constructed videos, often called deep. Where he once got complicated software to put one person’s face into the other, many of these tools are now common and can be found in smartphone applications. This has put some AI researchers on the edge of the dangers posed by technology.
