Dazhon Darien, a physical education teacher and the athletic director at Pikesville High School in Maryland, created a fake audio recording of the principal spewing hateful comments, authorities say.
A Maryland high school teacher was arrested after he used artificial intelligence to create phony audio, planting racist and antisemitic words into the voice of his boss, officials alleged Thursday.
Dazhon Darien, a physical education teacher and the athletic director at Pikesville High School, was accused of falsifying the voice of principal Eric Eiswert in January, authorities said.
“We now have conclusive evidence that the recording was not authentic,” Baltimore County Police Chief Robert McCullough told reporters in Towson. “It’s been determined the recording was generated through the use of artificial intelligence technology.”
Fuck this guy so much for opening the door for bigots the world over to claim that anything hateful they say is just a fake AI recording.
That door has been open for years now.
Has it? I really haven’t heard people make a “that wasn’t me, it was AI” claim until pretty recently until it was clear they were completely insane.
I mean AI voice replication hasn’t even been a thing most people have had access to for years. It’s very recent.
https://youtu.be/4zcrJeCsW0g?si=GTeqOam8gWVcVJ5b
That’s a guide for how to it from 2020.
It’s become accessible to the average user and of a consistently higher quality but any tech person could’ve already done this stuff years ago.
And yet people weren’t actually doing it much years ago. Now they are. Hence this court case and hence this asshole giving actual bigots ammunition.
How do you know they weren’t?
All that is different today is that more common and easier. This guy wasn’t the first to do this, nor did he invent the technology.
He hasn’t given actual bigots an excuse they already had.
Feel free to show me that bigots were claiming on a regular basis that AI was making it sound like they were saying bigoted things years ago.
Some politicians have made a couple flaccid claims about legit recordings. Guess their party affiliation lmao
Even those have been pretty recent though, right?
Yea, I believe they occurred some time last year
Also fuck this guy for trying to hurt another guy.
Edit:
Not trying to. The recordings got the victim put on paid administrative leave. People believed it. This is absolutely vicious.
“The most pressing problem is not that they’re [AI] going to take our jobs, not that they’re going to change warfare, but that they’re going to destroy human trust. They’re going to move us into a world where you can’t tell truth from falsehood. You don’t know who to trust. Trust turns out to be one of the most important features of civilization, and we are now at great risk of destroying the links of trust that have made civilization possible.” - Daniel C. Dennett
In a few years you will not know what is true or false unless you see it in person with your own eyes. Even video and audio proof are going by the wayside.
…we are in for some crazy times.
