Baltimore – A former Athletics Director of High School accused of using artificial intelligence to create A deep racist and anti -Semitic From a Maryland director, he has been sentenced to four months in jail as part of a guilt agreement for interrupting school operations.
Dazhon Darien, 32, accepted the agreement on Monday at the Baltimore County Circuit Court, according to the records. He entered a plea of Alford to the position of minor crime, which means that he recognized the evidence against him without directly admitting the fault. His original positions included robbery, harassment and reprisals against a witness.
According to police and prosecutors, Darien used AI software to generate a false recording of the voice of former Pikesville High School, Eric Eiswert, expressing frustration with black students and their test skills. The recording, which was disseminated throughout the school community and was shared widely on social networks last January, also intended to capture the main Jewish people that belittled, the authorities said.
Not long before the recording arose, Eiswert had informed Darien that his contract would not be renewed the following semester due to concerns about poor work performance, according to judicial documents. The concerns included accusations that Darien paid his fourth partner $ 1,900 in school funds under the pretext of training the women’s football team, police said.
The experts who analyzed the recording concluded that it was generated by AI.
Despite receiving a relatively short sentence, Darien could remain imprisoned for a longer time, since he faces a separate federal case in which he is accused of sexual exploitation of children and possession of child sexual abuse material. The authorities said they discovered evidence of those crimes while looking for the phone and other Darien devices.
Although the false recordings of political figures and celebrities have emerged in recent years as technology is generalized, officials have said that the case is one of the first examples of AI that is used to embarrass someone for personal gain.
The artificial intelligence subset known as the generative AI can create Hyperrealist imagesVideos and audio clips. As it becomes cheaper and easier to use, anyone with Internet connection can access their capabilities. Even a brief recording of someone’s voice allows users to generate a cloned speech from a script.
Other audio examples generated by AI include robocalls supplanting former president Joe Biden That tried to dissuade the Democrats to vote in the primary elections of New Hampshire last year. People have also cloned the voices of the alleged kidnapped children by phone to obtain money rescued from parents, experts say.
In response, many states They have promulgated laws in recent years aimed at the use of AI, especially aimed at the media aimed at influencing the results of the elections and images of child sexual abuse created or disturbed digitally.
During this year’s legislative session, Maryland legislators considered a bill that would have prohibited the use of AI to impersonate people. The state prosecutor of Baltimore County, Scott Shellenberger, advocated in favor of the change of law, but ultimately was not approved.
Darien’s false audio sent shock waves through the suburban community of Pikesville, since angry calls flooded school and messages full of hate accumulated on social networks. The authorities said the police were sent to the patrol of Eiswert’s house in response to threats.
Eiswert, who is now director of another Baltimore Counting School, said from the beginning that he believed that the recording was false. Since then, he has filed a lawsuit against the school district, claiming that Darien should never have been hired first.
Darien joined the district in the spring of 2023, when he began teaching social studies in a different high school, according to demand. He was later promoted to Atlético de Pikesville director.
Eiswert’s complaint cites the reports of the Baltimore Banner that revealed a lot of false claims about Darien’s job application, including multiple degrees that he had not obtained. Florida’s education officials also denied Darien a teaching certificate in 2016 based on “Document Fraud” and marked their name in a national database, according to the Banner. Eiswert argues that Baltimore County school officials could not properly examine their application materials and investigate their background.
