A former Athletic Director of a high school in the Baltimore area that was accused of using artificial intelligence to create a racist and anti -Semitic audio clip that impersonated the school principal was sentenced on Monday to four months in prison as part of a plea bargain, according to ministries.
The former director, Dazhon Darien, 32 years old, declared himself guilty of school operations disorders, a crime of crime, according to the office of the state prosecutor of the county of Baltimore. Mr. Darien had previously faced further accusations, including theft, stalking and revenge against a witness.
According to the Associated Press, Darien participated in an Alford appeal on charges of school operations in disorder, which allows the defendants to maintain their innocence while declaring themselves guilty.
Darien, former athletic director of Pikesville High School, has built An audio clip that included a rant on “ungrateful black children who cannot test the way out of a paper bag” and to denigrate comments on Jewish students, according to a declaration of the facts in the case used to support the request for guilt. According to the police registers, the audio was an attempt to smear the principal of the school, Eric Eiswert, according to the police records.
According to the declaration of the facts, Eiswert said that there were “conversations” with Mr. Darien on the fact that his contract was not renewed because of his poor performance at school, of his inability to clearly follow the established procedures and his reluctance to follow the chain of command “. The problems with Mr. Darien began at the end of 2023, which led to the version of the audio.
A lawyer listed for Mr. Darien did not respond to calls and messages on Tuesday. The District of Public Schools of the County Baltimore has refused to comment on the case. The efforts to reach Mr. Eiswert on Tuesday were not successful.
After his sentence, Mr. Darien was returned to federal custody while he is facing the accusations of sexually exploiting children and has received childish pornography.
The registration manufactured, which was published on Instagram in January 2024, quickly spread, ruining the public schools of the county of Baltimore, which serves over 100,000 students. While the district investigated, Mr. Eiswert, who denied having made the comments, had more threats to his security, said the police. He was also put on administrative leave, said the school district.
According to police documents, Darien developed a complaint against Mr. Eiswert in December after the principal began to investigate him. Mr. Darien had authorized a district payment of $ 1,916 to his roommate, the police said: “under the fiction” that the roommate worked as assistant coach for the girl's girls' soccer team.
Shortly thereafter, the police said, Darien used the internet services of the school district to look for artificial intelligence tools, also from Openii, the developer of the chatbot chatgpt and the Microsoft Bing chat.
(The New York Times sued Openi and its partner, Microsoft, in December 2023, for violation of the copyright of news content relating to artificial intelligence systems.)
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