Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi has arrived in Pakistan on a three-day visit these days. He will visit the capital including Karachi and Lahore.
The Iranian president is the first foreign dignitary to visit Pakistan following the election.
However, some interesting information regarding the Iranian president will tell you.
Born in the city of Mashhad, Iran, Ibrahim Raisi belongs to a religious family, the father of the Iranian president, Seyed Haji, has also been a well-known religious leader.
2024-04-26 02:43:13
AI-generated misinformation is seen as the biggest threat in the 2024 election year
Heading into the 2024 election year, AI-generated misinformation is becoming more dangerous for internet and social media users.
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A Baltimore High School athletic director was arrested Thursday and charged with using artificial intelligence to impersonate a principal on a voice recording that included disparaging comments regarding students and staff, authorities said.
Dazhon Darien, a physical education teacher and athletic director at Pikesville High School, is accused of using artificial intelligence software to falsify a voice recording of Principal Eric Eiswert, according to Baltimore County Sheriff Robert McCullough. The fabricated recording went viral following it circulated on social media in January, sparking widespread outrage and condemnation among the Baltimore County Public Schools community.
“We now have conclusive evidence that the recording was not authentic. The Baltimore County Police Department came to that determination following conducting an extensive investigation,” McCullough said during a news conference Thursday. “Based on these findings and further investigation, it was determined that the survey was generated using artificial intelligence technology.”
Darien, 31, was arrested Thursday and faces multiple charges, including theft, stalking, disrupting school operations and retaliation once morest a witness, police said. After a court appearance Thursday followingnoon, Darien was released on a $5,000 unsecured bond.
Baltimore County State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger said Thursday that the case appears to be one of the first of its kind nationwide. He noted that state lawmakers need to update legislation to incorporate the new technology.
The Baltimore case is the latest in a surge of artificial intelligence, or AI, abuses in schools across the country. Most cases involve “deepfakes,” or AI-generated synthetic media, which are images, videos, and audio that digitally manipulate an individual’s appearance, voice, or actions.
In the past year, schools have struggled to police the technology as male students in middle school and high school use AI to create nude photos of their classmates. While some cases resulted in arrests, others faced less serious consequences due to different district policies and state laws.
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Police: False recording may have been done in retaliation for school investigation
The Baltimore County Police Department launched an investigation on Jan. 17 following an alleged voice recording of Eiswert making racist and anti-Semitic comments regarding students and staff was posted on Instagram. The recording sparked a massive online backlash and prompted an investigation from the school district.
In the recording, the voice said Black students were unable to test their way out of a paper bag and questioned “how difficult it is to get these students to meet their grade-level expectations.” The recording also made disparaging comments regarding Jewish people and named staff members who “should never have been hired.”
The Baltimore Banner reported that school community members believe Eiswert made those discriminatory comments. Eiswert has denied making the comments and has not worked at the school since the investigation began, according to the news outlet.
As part of the police investigation, McCullough said investigators worked with forensic analysts from the FBI and the University of California, Berkeley, who determined the recording was not authentic. “The results of that analysis indicated that the recording contained traces of AI-generated content,” McCullough said.
According to McCullough, police believe that Darien produced the recording in retaliation once morest Eiswert, who was conducting an investigation into the possible mishandling of school funds at the time.
Maryland Transportation Authority officers arrested Darien Thursday morning at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, McCullough said. Darien was attempting to board a flight when he was stopped and questioned regarding how his declared firearm was packed.
Officers ran a background check on Darien and an open warrant for his arrest appeared, McCullough added.
Baltimore County Public Schools said in a statement that the district take “appropriate action” once morest Darien’s actions, including a recommendation for termination.
Rise of deepfakes: ‘Entering a new, deeply troubling frontier’
Deepfakes are often used maliciously or to spread misinformation. The AI-generated synthetic media has already “proved to be harmful forces in schools, as students create deep fakes of their peers in intimate poses to mock and bully each other,” according to the Center for Democracy and Technology. There have also been cases of students creating deepfakes of their teachers.
“It’s clear that we’re also entering a new, deeply troubling frontier,” Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski said Thursday. “As we continue to embrace emerging technology and its potential for innovation and social good, we must also remain vigilant once morest those who have used it for malicious intent.”
Last April, a student in Houston, Texas, was accused of digitally altering photos of a teacher and sharing those explicit images online, FOX 26 Houston reports.
In December, two Florida middle school boys were arrested on suspicion of using an AI app to create nude photos of their classmates, who were between the ages of 12 and 13, according to an arrest warrant. The boys were charged with third-degree felonies under a 2022 state law.
And in February, school administrators accused middle school students in Beverly Hills, Calif., of using AI to create fake nude photos of their classmates, according to NBC News. The superintendent told NBC News that the images include students’ faces digitally manipulated onto naked bodies.
Contributing: Zachary Schermele and Natasha Lovato, USA TODAY
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2024-04-24 14:30:00
A project which disenchants some Visétois, who came to express their discontent before the meeting of elected officials. They fear, among other things, “a precedent in the municipality opening the door to even greater urban excesses”.
The demonstrators particularly denounced the absence of a “real park on the outskirts of the site, which would return the Meuse to the Visétois”. In fact, the College acquired, last October, land of nearly 14,000 square meters. Half now belongs to the designers of the hotel project and the other half would be intended for a park open to the public.
If the consortium has already planned to build pontoons on the river, as well as an esplanade and green spaces, the protesters do not believe in it: “On the layout sketch, it appears more like the hotel garden than a park for residents”.
The future “Bizz&Bike” hotel in Visé. ©Uman Architect
The establishment project “bikeable”, which seems to want to give pride of place to cycling, does not convince either. “A 250-space car park is planned”, denounces the Stop Béton Visé collective. “Therefore, we must expect significant car traffic and this will worsen the traffic problems on the Visé bridge and in the city center”, he adds.
Soon a 7,000 m² park along the Meuse in Visé?
The Visons Demain group, when announcing the acquisition of the land, feared the ambient noise, insisting that, “for a park to be pleasant, it had to be sufficiently calm”. “The constant noise from heavy goods vehicle and car traffic is unfortunately problematic”, added the advisors.
For these reasons, “and given the scale of the project”, the demonstrators, who refuse that Visé become “Dubai on Meuse”, asked elected officials to “postpone the sale decision so as to allow broad consultation of the population”. Affected by this action, various councilors supported this request, and Martial Mullenders, from Visons Demain, requested a postponement of the item on the agenda, which was not accepted.
However, it was decided to create a commission responsible for evaluating the development project for the Quai des Fermettes. “Some details are missing in the file presented by the consortiumindicates councilor Claude Frémineur, particularly regarding the size of the parking lots and the height of the building”. “
With this commission, which will be held before the summer, each party will be represented and will be able to try to agree on a revised project. Note that the people of Visé are not once morest the idea of developing a hotel in the area, but that it is important that “this one does not clash too much with the landscape due to its imposing size”.
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The first trial under the new sports law regarding sports violence took place today at the Three-member Misdemeanor Court of Patras, and it concerned the coach of the Thyella team, in the wake of the incidents in the Thyella – Atromitos game.
In particular, a case file had been filed for misdemeanor sports violence. According to the information of pelop.gr, the decision of the Court acquitted the coach of Tyella, who was released without restrictive conditions by order of the Prosecutor.
Interruption in Thyella-Atromitos, player in hospital! All background PHOTO
Supreme Court lawyer Dimitris Gaveras stated that this decision is very important and a guide for similar cases, adding that sports justice has proven that we should trust it. “The decision vindicates us,” he said characteristically and concluded: “The new law is very strict. We all have to be very careful to eliminate violence from the stadiums”.
It is noted that the new law provides for a 6-month prison sentence without commutation.
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