Racist AI deepfake of Baltimore principal leads to arrest
A Baltimore-area high school athletic director was arrested Thursday after using artificial intelligence software, police said, to produce a racist and anti-Semitic audio clip in which he impersonated the school's principal.Dazhon Darien, the athletic director at Pikesville High School, fabricated the recording — including a rant about "ungrateful black kids who can't get out of a paper bag" — in an attempt to smear the principal, Eric Eiswert, according to the department Baltimore County Police Department.The fake recording, which was posted to Instagram in mid-January, spread quickly, upsetting public schools in Baltimore County, which is the 22nd largest school district in the nation and serves more than 100,000 students. As the district investigated, Mr. Eiswert, who denied ma...