Athletic director used AI to frame principal with racist remarks in fake audio clip, police say

The Associated Press reported on a former high school athletic director in Maryland who was arrested for allegedly using artificial intelligence to create a fake audio clip containing racist and antisemitic remarks by the school’s principal, and included insights from Siwei Lyu about how AI is becoming increasingly powerful and easy to use. Hundreds of news outlets reposted the article including Yahoo! News and WIVB-TV.