Carmel school students attack Principal with racist deepfake video
Students at Carmel High School, USA, concocted deepfake videos of a nearby school principal and law enforcement officer shouting racist slurs and threatening to kill Black students. In one video, John Piscitella, the principal of nearby George Fisher Middle School, rants 'I f*cking hate Black kids. Like these stupid f*cking n***er monkey parents need to stop sending them here. Get them the f**k out, all of them.' The incident alarmed and angered parents, who alleged the school had not taken the threats in the videos seriously and had failed to inform them properly. It also highlighted the lack of adequate legislation to handle malicious deepfake impersonations at federal and state levels in the USA. The parents said they would file a lawsuit against the school authorities over the incident. Deepfake Deepfakes (a portmanteau of ' deep learning ' and 'fake') are images, videos, or audio which are edited or generated using artificial intelligence tools, and which may depict real or non-existent people. They are a type of synthetic media. Source: Wikipedia 🔗 System 🤖 Unknown O perator: Developer: Country: USA Sector: Education Purpose: Damage rep utation Technology: Deepfake - audio, video; Machine learning Issue: Ethics/values; Mis/disinformation; Safety
- Date it happened
- 2023-03-01
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