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Posted on 03/15/2026 11:16:54 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
A case of mistaken identity involving AI facial recognition software has led to a civil lawsuit and national scrutiny after a Tennessee grandmother spent more than 5 months in jail for a crime she did not commit, according to first reporting by Matt Henson of WDAY.
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So much for the infallibility of AI.
Good pay-day coming.
I hope so. It was an avoidable travesty, and from my understanding she ended up losing everything.
How about a little context, at least? You can put more than ten words in an excerpt.
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Angela Lipps, 50, was wrongly identified by Fargo police as the perpetrator of a multi-city bank fraud scheme, according to records obtained by WDAY. Fargo police initially pressed charges when the software led them to Lipps. Angela’s lawyer, Jay Greenwood, found in her bank records that she had been buying things in Tennessee at the same time she was alleged to have been committing bank fraud in North Dakota. This prompted her very first interview with police. She was released from jail a few days later, left stranded with no way to get home.
AI is the next great alibi. Forget the check is in the mail. From now on, the AI did it.
I don’t blame AI
I blame the people that relied on AI
Essentially, state sponsored hacking databases.
AI is just a tool. Dumb cops using it for detective work to convict people might as well get themselves hammers, call themselves carpenters and start building houses.
I see a very large lawsuit being filed against the Fargo PD.
Granny just hit the jackpot. Frankly I can’t believe a judge couldn’t charge the cops or DA involved in this.
Also, the local Police have not cleared her - just released her.
One episode of “Bosch Legacy” dealt with this issue. That whole facial recognition, and similar biometrics protocols, is scary.
On some social media platform that matches faces online, my cousin’s wife and I have been matched as the same person. We’re not even related to each other.
>>So much for the infallibility of AI.<<
I use AI a lot and it makes mistakes ALL THE TIME.
We installed a face recognition system where I work, for clearing and identifying visitors. Upon installation and activation I was the first test subject. It identified me as a certain 55 year old women from Seattle.(She must be really ugly) I am a 7th decade male in NY State. That was when I really learned that AI was going to cause much trouble.
That’s what I keep saying. It’s just accessing massive amounts of data and applying weighted algorithms faster with more processing power than what’s been done before. It’s subject to the limits of its programming, which makes it highly susceptible to GIGO.
All an LLM does is predict the most likely next token. That’s it! Nothing more, nothing less.
Alabama in particular and I presume all of the Deep South in general, have extremely flawed judicial systems. Innocent people suffer and then cant fight back because they cant afford an attorney. Hopefully this lady somehow can get justice and sue the city for an amount that makes them change their prosecution policies.
That’s what is so disturbing here, nobody claims AI is infallible. Unless they had some other corroborating evidence, all they have is a “visual probability” of an identity, nothing more.
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