A former athletics director at a high school in the Baltimore area that was accused of using artificial intelligence to create a racist and anti -Semitic audio clip that is posed by the school director was sentenced on Monday to four months in jail as part of a guilt agreement. Deal. Deal.
The former director, Dazhon Darien, 32, declared himself guilty of the disturbing school operations, a wear and charge position, agreed to the office of the state prosecutor of Baltimore County. Mr. Darien had faced additional charges, which include robbery, harassment and reprisals against a witness.
According to Associated Press, Mr. Darien declared a request for Alford to the disturbing position of school operations, which allows the defendants to maintain their innocence while they declare themselves guilty.
Mr. Darien, the former Athletic Director of the Pikesville High School, manufactured an audio clip that included a diatribe about “unpleasant black children who cannot leave a paper bag” and dispense comments on Jewish students, according to a declaration of facts or facts. According to police records, the audio was an attempt to stain the school director, Eric Eiswert.
According to the declaration of facts, Mr. Eiswert said there had been “conversations” with Mr. Darien about his contract was not renewed due to “his poor performance in school, his inability to follow the clearly established procedures and his lack of will to follow the chain of command.” The problems with Mr. Darien began at the end of 2023, before the release of the audio, according to the statement.
A lawyer who appears at Mr. Darien did not respond to calls and messages on Tuesday. The Baltimore County Public Schools District declined to comment on the case. The efforts to get to Mr. Eiswert on Tuesday were not successful.
After his sentence, Mr. Darien was returned to federal custody, since he faces charges that he exploded sexual children and recovered child pornography.
The manufactured recording, which was published on Instagram in January 2024, extended rapidly, wrinkling the public schools of Baltimore County, which serves more than 100,000 students. While the district investigated, Mr. Eiswert, who made the comments, had multiple threats for his safety, police said. He was also put on administrative license, said the school district.
According to police documents, Mr. Darien developed a complaint against Mr. Eiswert in December after the director committed it. Mr. Darien had authorized a district payment of $ 1,916 to his roommate, police said, “under the previous” that the fourth partner was working as an assistant coach for the Pikesville women’s football team.
Shortly after, said Police, Mr. Darien used the Internet services of the school district to find artificial intelligence tools, even OpenAi, the Chatgpt Chatbot developer and Microsoft’s Bing chat.
(The New York Times sued Openai and his partner, Microsoft, in December 2023, for the infringement of copyright of the news content related to AI systems).
A public defender representation, Mr. Darien, refused to comment on the case.
It has never been easier to make realistic manufactured videos, or called Deepfakes. Where once touched software to put the face of one person in the other, many of those tools are now common and can be found in smartphone applications. This has put some A -researchers at the limit on the dangers posed by technology.
