High Schoolers Posted Deepfaked Video Featuring Principal Making Violent Racist Threats

February 12, 2023

Three Carmel High School students posted a deepfaked video on TikTok depicting a nearby middle school principal making aggressive racist remarks and violent threats against Black students. This incident highlights the urgent need for safe and secure AI practices. For those interested in shaping responsible AI governance, consider joining HISPI Project Cerebellum to help prevent such harmful incidents in the future through our Measure and Govern functions.

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MAP 1.6 — similarity 0.598, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MEASURE 2.6 — similarity 0.589, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
GOVERN 2.2 — similarity 0.587, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Alleged deployer: unnamed-high-school-students
Alleged developer: unknown
Alleged harmed parties: john-piscitella

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/495

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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