A bodily training trainer and former athletic director of a Baltimore County highschool has been arrested and charged with utilizing an AI voice cloning service to border the college’s principal.
The Baltimore Banner experiences that Baltimore County police consider a recording whiich circulated by social media in January with purported audio of Pikesville Excessive College principal Eric Eiswert making racist and antisemitic feedback was faux. Specialists informed The Baltimore Banner and police that the recording, which briefly resulted in Eiswert’s suspension, has a “flat tone, unusually clear background sounds, and lack of constant respiration sounds or pauses.”
Baltimore County police traced the recording to Dazhon Darien, a former athletic director on the college whose title was additionally talked about within the audio clip. He allegedly accessed college computer systems to seek for “OpenAI instruments.” It isn’t clear what AI voice platform Darien allegedly used. The police arrested Darien on Thursday on the airport, and WBAL TV 11 experiences that “investigators consider Darien made the recording to retaliate towards Eiswert, who, on the time, was pursuing an investigation into the potential mishandling of faculty funds.”
On this fraught surroundings, OpenAI determined in March to withhold its AI text-to-voice technology platform, Voice Engine, from public use. The service, which solely requires a 15-minute audio clip to clone somebody’s voice, is barely out there to a restricted variety of researchers as a result of lack of guardrails across the expertise.
US lawmakers have filed, however not but handed, a number of payments like the No Fakes Act and the No AI Fraud Act that search to stop expertise firms from utilizing a person’s face, voice, or title with out their permission.
Replace April twenty fifth: Clarified that Pikesville Excessive College is within the metropolis of Pikesville in Baltimore County, MD, added particulars about Darien and Thursday’s arrest.