AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case

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AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case

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Politics · 8 months ago

Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail in Tennessee and North Dakota after being misidentified by Fargo police through AI facial recognition in a bank fraud investigation.

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Wow, the future is now eh.

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