DeepfakeHigh
Carmel High School Students Reportedly Posted Racist Deepfake Videos Making New York Principal Appear to Threaten Black Students
- Occurred
- Feb 12, 2023
- Published
- Mar 9, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
At Carmel High School in New York, three students reportedly posted AI-generated deepfake videos on TikTok impersonating George Fischer Middle School principal John Piscitella and a sheriff's-office member making racist slurs and violent threats against Black students. The videos were reported to school officials on February 12, 2023, and parents later criticized the district's communication and safety response.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- unnamed high school students
- Students
Harmed parties
- John Piscitella
- Epistemic integrity
- Teachers
- Educators
- Educational communities
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Students used deepfake technology to create a video of a principal making violent racist threats, causing significant reputational and emotional harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8