Baltimore Police arrest a high school teacher for allegedly framing his principal by using AI to create an audio file of the principal making racist comments
We are not prepared for the world we have created. — #Baltimore #generativeAI — https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/ ... Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor@mastodon.social : If what's being charged in this case is true — an employee using “AI” to make a fake audio of his boss saying terrible things — I hope he goes to jail for a serious stretch. — We are, to put it mildly, not prepared for the avalanche of malicious, synthetic lies coming soon. … Charlie McHenry / @CharlieMcHenry@connectop.us : It has begun... Athletic Director arrested for using #AI generated voice fake to ‘frame’ his principal. Very worrisome indeed. And just the tip of the iceberg. — https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/ ... Rob Carlson / @vees@epistolary.org : For those not keeping tabs on this story, there was an audio file released with the voice of a #BaltimoreCounty high school teacher making racist and #antisemitic comments. — Most people quickly came to the conclusion that this was an AI-generated impersonation but also just assumed (as I 100% did) it was some tech-savvy high school students playing a tone-deaf prank. … Kieran Healy / @kjhealy@mastodon.social : Looking forward to a rash of this shit as AI tools find their place in society https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/ ... X: Robert Scoble / @scobleizer : AI at its worst. I am an AI optimist, but even I recognize AI brings major new problems for human beings. This being one of them. Shelly Palmer / @shellypalmer : In a disturbing exploitation of AI, former Pikesville High School athletic director Dazhon Darien was arrested for allegedly impersonating the school's principal using AI voice synthesis to disseminate false racist and antisemitic statements. The synthetic audio, widely shared on... [image] LinkedIn: David Miklas : Imagine an employee using AI to create an audio clip with the boss's voice saying “ungrateful Black[s]” and if he got another complaint from …