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Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition

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Re: Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition

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Post by whack »

> According to the court documents, the Fargo detective working the case then looked at Lipps' social media accounts and Tennessee driver's license photo. In his charging document, the detective wrote that Lipps appeared to be the suspect based on facial features, body type and hairstyle and color.

> Once they were in hand, Fargo police met with him and Lipps at the Cass County jail on Dec. 19. She had already been in jail for more than five months. It was the first time police interviewed her.

How is this the fault of AI? It flagged a possible match. A live human detective confirmed it. And the criminal justice system, for reasons that have nothing to do with AI, let this woman sit in jail for 5 months before doing even interviewing her or doing any due diligence.

There's a reason why we don't let AI autonomously jail people. Instead of scapegoating an AI bogeyman, maybe we should look instead at the professional human-in-the-loop who shirked all responsibility, and a criminal justice system that thinks it is okay to jail people for 5 months before even starting to assess their guilt.

Re: Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

theLiminator wrote: post #30
djfobbz wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Criminal immunity? Sure. Civil immunity? Nope! She could definitely make a nice buck.

Off of taxpayer money sadly. Imo we really need a fix for this. When cops are grossly negligent the money should come out of their aggregate pension fund (or at least partially).

> we really need a fix for this. When cops are grossly negligent the money should come out of their aggregate pension fund

This is on us as voters. If we didn’t piss our pants every time a police union sneezed, we’d realize wholesale restarting police departments is precedents in even our largest cities.

Re: Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition

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Post by [deleted] »

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.

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Re: Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition

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Post by api »

It's not an AI error. It's a human error in mis-using AI in this way. Saying it's an AI error is like saying a hole in your drywall is a hammer error.

Unfortunately we'll probably see a trend of people using AI and then blaming AI for cases where they mis-used AI in roles it's not good for or failed to review or monitor the AI.

Re: Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition

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Post by RobRivera »

whack wrote: post #51

> According to the court documents, the Fargo detective working the case then looked at Lipps' social media accounts and Tennessee driver's license photo. In his charging document, the detective wrote that Lipps appeared to be the suspect based on facial features, body type and hairstyle and color. > Once they were in hand, Fargo police met with him and Lipps at the Cass County jail on Dec. 19. She had already been i…

I think it's more nuanced; it is one error in a Tragedy of Errors.

Re: Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

holman wrote: post #47

Me: Whoa, cool, my hometown is on atop Hacker News! Also me, reading further: Uh-oh. The chief of police also resigned today; wouldn't be shocked if this was part of the reasoning.

> chief of police also resigned today

Source?

Re: Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

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.

“Unable to pay her bills from jail, she lost her home, her car and even her dog.”

Who stole her dog?!

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