ourmandave21h ago

Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/us/angela-lipps-ai-facial-recognition

Police used AI facial recognition to arrest a Tennessee woman for crimes committed in a state she says she’s never visited

A Tennessee grandmother spent more than five months in jail after police used an AI facial recognition tool to link her to crimes committed in North Dakota – a state she says she’d never been to before.

CNN
Show threadjqpabc12321h ago
AI is a liability issue waiting to happen. And this is just another example.
Show threadgaryfirestorm21h ago
It’s a tool. Used incorrectly will lead to errors. Just like a hammer, used incorrectly could hit the users finger.
Show threadtgv
This tool, however, is specifically built for mass surveillance. It serves no other purpose. The tool is broken, and everybody knows it. The tool makers are at least as guilty as those who use it.
Mar 29 at 3:08pmWeb
Show threadcyanydeez20h ago
The tool, like Google search, is likely biased towards returning results regardless of confidence.