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Baltimore HS athletic director used AI to make fake clip of principal spouting racist rhetoric: police
A Baltimore suburb high school athletic director allegedly used artificial intelligence to impersonate his principal spouting racist and antisemitic hate as part of a demented revenge scheme. Dazhon Darien, 31, was arrested Thursday while trying to hop on a plane to Houston. “From the very beginning, we have expressed our concern about the disturbing audio that shook our communities here in Baltimore County. That’s because those words go against everything we stand for,” County Executive Johnny Olszewski said at a press conference. “Hate has no place and no home in Baltimore County. Nor should it have any place across our state or here...
Disgruntled ex-athletic director allegedly created AI racist rant to retaliate against principal
BALTIMORE — AI strikes again. This time prosecutors say it was used as retaliation to frame a Baltimore County high school principal. Now the former athletic director is being charged with reckless endangerment and disrupting school activities. Dazhon Darien is accused of using Artificial Intelligence tools to impersonate the...
Imelda Louise Sansone, multilingual Baltimore County educator, dies
Imelda Louise Sansone, a Baltimore County Public Schools language teacher who started an Italian culture club, died of pneumonia April 14 at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Lutherville resident was 88. Born in Collelongo, a town in the Abruzzo region of Italy, she was the daughter of Benilde and Angelo Sansone. She spent her first 12 years in Italy with her mother and extended family ...
A school principal faced threats after being accused of offensive language on a recording. Now police say it was a deepfake
The recording surfaced in January, sending shockwaves through Pikesville High School near Baltimore. It appeared the principal had been caught making racist and antisemitic comments. Now police are saying it was a deepfake – and they’ve arrested the school’s former athletic director.
Athletic director frames principal using AI in racist audio clip, police say
A high school athletic director in Maryland has been accused of using artificial intelligence to impersonate a principal on an audio recording that included racist and antisemitic comments, authorities said Thursday.
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