ffalaschi1d ago
Jason Lefkowitz

“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.

Police in Fargo, North Dakota, have acknowledged ‘a few errors’ in the case and pledged changes in their operations but stopped short of issuing a direct apology.”

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
Apr 6 at 3:37amWeb
Show threadLstn2urmama 🇨🇦1d ago
@jalefkowit These kinds of screw ups have been happening since the very late 60's and my mother who had NOT EVER DRIVEN in any city was going to be taken to jail because they claimed HER PLATE NUMBER was seen at something ..she barely got her drivers license and drove back and forth 8 miles to town and back in her 30's back then ...*** They screwed up on reading the plate number...
Show threadMealin ⧖⃝1d ago
@Lstn2urmama @jalefkowit Two examples about the necessity of real and serious human's investigations... and that being wrongly charged, even if canceled later, have consequences that WE as a society shouldn't underestimate.
Show threadLinda Sgoluppi Artist1d ago
@jalefkowit Perhaps she could set up a gofundme to suue them, I would.
Show threadSea1d ago

@jalefkowit

Apologizing to a woman would mean compromising their values.

Show threadSocke651d ago

@jalefkowit

get ready! this is going to be the new normal.

Show threadMargaret Moonshadow20h ago
@jalefkowit omg. Apology would be the base level expectation of anyone in any polite society anywhere. What the hell is going on, and of course we have no functioning government that might get involved with the use of this tool more generally.