A former athletic director at a secondary school in Baltimore, accused of using artificial intelligence to create a racist and anti -Semitic Audioclip that occurred, was convicted in prison on Monday to four months in prison, according to the PRison Officers.
The former director, Dazhon Darien, 32, argued guilty of disturbing school operations, a crime, according to the office of the law firm of the state of Baltimore County. Mr Darien had previously had to deal with extra charges, including theft, stalking and revenge against a witness.
According to the Associated Press, Mr Darien has submitted an Alford plea to the disturbing indictment for school operations, allowing the defendants to maintain their innocence while guilty.
Mr Darien, the former athletic director of Pikesville High School, manufactured an audio clip with an anger about “thankless black children who cannot test their way out of a paper bag” and contemptuous comments about Jewish students, according to a statement of facts in the case used to support the culprit plea. According to police files, the audio was an attempt to smear the director of the school, Eric Eiswert.
According to the declaration of fact, Mr. Eiswert said that there had been “conversations” with Mr Darien about his contract that was not renewed because of “his poor performance at the school, his inability to clearly constructed procedures and his unwillingness to follow the command structure.” Problems with Mr Darien started at the end of 2023, in the run -up to the release of the audio, according to the statement.
A lawyer for Mr Darien did not respond to calls and messages on Tuesday. The Baltimore County Public Schools district refused to comment on the case. The efforts to reach Mr. Eiswert on Tuesday were not successful.
After his conviction, Mr Darien was brought back to federal custody, because he is confronted with the charges that he gave children sexually exploited and received child pornography.
The manufactured recording, which was placed on Instagram in January 2024, spread rapidly, Roiling Baltimore County Public Schools, which serves more than 100,000 students. While the district investigated, Mr. Eiswert, who denied the comments, had several threats for his safety, the police said. He was also placed with administrative leave, the school district said.
According to police documents, Mr Darien developed a complaint against Mr Eiswert in December after the director began to investigate him. Mr Darien had allowed a district payment of $ 1,916 to his roommate, the police said: “Under the pretension” that the roommate worked as an assistant coach for the Pikesville Girls' Soccer Team.
Shortly thereafter, the police said, Mr Darien used the internet services of the school district to look for artificial intelligence tools, including Van OpenAi, the developer of the Chatgpt Chatbot and the Bing chat of Microsoft.
(In December 2023, Microsoft, the New York Times charged Microsoft for infringing the copyright of news content with regard to AI systems.)
A public defender representing Mr Darien refused to comment on the case.
It has never been so easy to make realistic manufactured videos, often called deep fakes. Where it once took extensive software to place the face of one person to the next, many of those tools are now common and can be found on smartphone apps. This has put some AI researchers on the edge about the dangers that the technology forms.
