Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition

Post by Pxtl » Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 9:31 PM UTC

throw_m239339 wrote: post #35

tony_cannistra wrote: post #7

Completely infuriating, but more of a commentary on the sad state of incompetent power-hungry law enforcement with tools they don't know how to use than the tools themselves. Though, the question remains: are the tools built in such a way as to deceive the user into a false sense of trust or certainty? _Some_ of the blame lies on the UX here. It must.

> they don't know how to use than the tools themselves. No, the tools work perfectly as they were design to work. The problem is that the tools are flawed. Ultimately, every single of these decisions should be approved by a human, which should be responsible for the fuck up no matter what the consequences are. > _Some_ of the blame lies on the UX here. It must. No, the blame lies with the person or the group who appr…

Post by farceSpherule » Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 9:32 PM UTC

Post by eek2121 » Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 9:33 PM UTC

john_strinlai wrote: post #38

rpcope1 wrote: post #10

There's no way this isn't a slam dunk case to sue the piss out of the Fargo Police, probably the US Marshals and maybe other orgs. The woman in the surveillance phone clearly looks way younger, among the many other obvious signs this woman didn't do it. I hope she wrings at least several million dollars out of the government.

> I hope she wrings at least several million dollars out of the government. which the citizens end up footing the bill for. yay.

Post by holman » Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 9:33 PM UTC

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 9:34 PM UTC

anigbrowl wrote: post #22

rpcope1 wrote: post #10

There's no way this isn't a slam dunk case to sue the piss out of the Fargo Police, probably the US Marshals and maybe other orgs. The woman in the surveillance phone clearly looks way younger, among the many other obvious signs this woman didn't do it. I hope she wrings at least several million dollars out of the government.

imho the US Marshals are the only innocent party here, as my understanding is they don't do investigations and just serve warrants without any knowledge of the underlying case.