Welcome to the new age of bullying
Who needs to work on destroying someone's life when AI can do it for you?
Broke: “No One is illegal!”
Woke: “Juden Raus!”
Abraham Lincoln famously said you shouldn’t trust everything you read on the internet.
That was true even before this crazy story, involving two feuding Baltimore teachers, an AI voice generator, and a viral hoax that made an innocent man social media’s main character for a few days:
Police arrested a Baltimore high school athletic director Thursday after they said they discovered he allegedly used artificial intelligence to create a phony audio recording of the school's principal that went viral and cost the school leader his job temporarily and his safety.
Principal Eric Eisworth was removed from his position at Pikesville High School after the school district began investigating the audio clip that was circulated among staff and social media in January where it appeared Eisworth made racist comments against Black and Jewish persons, investigators allege.
The three-month probe, which involved local police and the FBI, concluded that the audio was forged using AI tools by Dazhon Darien, the athletic director at the school, according to Baltimore Chief of Police Robert McCollough.
"Detectives alleged Mr. Darien…made the recording to retaliate against the principal who had launched an investigation into the potential mishandling of school funds," McCollough told reporters at a news conference Thursday.
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Investigators said the audio had "profound repercussions" for Eisworth and the school community.
"It not only led to Eisworth's temporary removal but also triggered a wave of hate-filled messages on social media and numerous calls to the school," the charging document said.
It used to be that you had to deceptively edit videos or photo captions to falsely accuse someone of being racist. AI makes that so much easier.
God help us when the likes of “Bishop” Talbert Swan figure out how to use it.
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