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along_the_road ( along_the_road@beehaw.org )  to Politics · 7 months ago

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

www.grandforksherald.com

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

www.grandforksherald.com

along_the_road ( along_the_road@beehaw.org )  to Politics · 7 months ago
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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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  • Che Banana ( The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ) 
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    Plus, fingerprints indicating she didn’t have 6 fingers made them doubt the AI model

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    The investigator also wildly fucked up. The surveillance video shows someone decades younger. Not just AI caused this travesty.

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    In Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil” the inciting incident is a fly getting caught in a typewriter as a drone types an arrest order for a political dissident, leading the police to raid the wrong house and kill an innocent man. Crazy shit.

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    Wow, the future is now eh.

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