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I hope the lawsuit succeeds and stings the precinct hard.
Since the officers themselves can hide behind good faith and qualified immunity it becomes necessary to penalize the institution for hiring unprofessionals who overdepend on technology and draw their guns in advance.
It's crap like this that fuels the movement to abolish the police. And yeah, I think that model for responder is obsolete.
I had to fix this….
Grandmother launches $10 million lawsuit after being jailed for six months due to faulty AI facial recognition.
Why are headlines these days written backwards all the time? Is this an AI generation issue, or stupid "journalism standard"?
Without punctuation, this headline implies that Grandma's negligence with facial recognition resulting in being arrested and sued for $10 million.
I read it more like the grandma was jailed, because Fargo and detectives were hit by a $10m lawsuit due to a facial recognision mistake.
Fun fact, North Dakota (home of the idiot cop and criminally evil prosecutor) has a fewer people than the city of San Francisco in about 150,000 times the acreage. Put another way, there are about 268,000 people per electoral vote in North Dakota compared with about 728,000 people per electoral vote in California and about 670,000 people per electoral vote in Tennessee (home of the grandmother).
I've heard about these things happening before.
The cops have surveillance video of a suspect, and they feed it into a face recognition AI. The AI then searches for people who look like the suspect.
It's not finding the suspect. It's finding pictures of people who look like the suspect. The cops are supposed to use that to determine if anyone the AI identified possibly could be the suspect.
However, any stupid, lazy cop will pretend that is sufficient and away they go.
From what I've read, the face matching applications even state clearly that the match doesn't constitute any kind of proof that the person identified is actually guilty of anything. Anyone with any brains would understand that you need to have independent verification before even considering arresting someone. Unfortunately, the government doesn't want people with brains working as cops.
They dont hire cops for their brains.... im not entirely sure what the credentials for cops are, but brains is probably a disqualification.
This is also on whatever hillbilly prosecutor they have in ND that didn't immediately dismiss the charge when it came across their desk.
Hey now. Hillbillies are a proud Appalachian cultural tradition. The grandmother, being from Tennessee, might have been a hillbilly. And it might not have been an insult for her to self apply that label. The idiot cop and asshole prosecutor were in North Dakota.
Everybody in that chain should be dragged into civil court
Welcome to the future, you don't have to be afraid if you didn't do anything wrong.
It's "funny" how they never call it "AI" in these kinds of fail tales.
Because with AI, no bad can happen, it can only good happen.
Detective Lucas Heck proceeded with charges despite knowing that Lipps lived in Tennessee, had never visited North Dakota, did not match the physical description of the suspect captured on surveillance footage, and had no unexplained funds linking her to the thefts.
Wow, ACAB. How wildly incompetent are they?
Doesn't a judge or DA or someone have to approve charges? Was it really all left up to one guy's shot judgement?
the only scale any of these chucklefucks use
Shit like this sucks because it's the taxpayers that get stuck with the bill. I'm so sick of these huge companies using taxpayers to pay for everything because they dont want to spend their vast fortunes. We see the same thing with huge tax write offs for building things with the promise of more trickle down benefits.
really need to tie these judgement payout to the police pensions, see how quickly they acrually start policing their own
The big talk lately is about making ai your public defender.
So imagine getting fasley accused of a crime and your Ai lawyer throws the case in everyway possible.
At that point we might as well make ai the judge jury and executioner.
Thanks palantir.
I wish it was acceptable to include parentheses in a sentence. I had to read the headline a couple of times to figure out a facial recognition mistake did not directly launch a $10M lawsuit. The grandma did.
Even just a couple of commas would help.
Grandmother, jailed for six months after facial recognition mistake, launches $10 million lawsuit against Fargo and detective
10 Million seems low to me. Cars and homes can be replaced: pets and neighbors and community cannot be replaced, they are priceless.
And the state? They jailed her with insufficient proof.
they jailed her with pretty much no proof, pretty much a call from north dakota sayin "go arrest this grandma"
Buried in the article, it came out that the face they used as "proof" was the picture on the FAKE ID that the actual suspect used. They did exactly 0 investigative work. The computer spat out a picture with a name and they just went in guns drawn.
In front of kids.
The only "good" part I guess is that they didn't shoot her or the kids.
One of these cops is going to fuck with the wrong person, and instead of getting sued, they'll get shot.
And all I will say to that is: if that happens, you want me on your jury.
There's probably a reason why the copAI seems to lean towards women and grandmothers.
Uhhhh better run that again....
OK, let's take her down.
They are cowards after all. And they're creepy stalker/abusers too.
The companies that run this facial recognition should be the ones to pay first and foremost. The villains never pay themselves, we are paying victims from the taxes of the victims.
The way these things work it's up to the City Of Fargo to, after paying $10 million to this lady, go after the supplier they hired for the facial recognition service because it was not up to claimed standards and resulted in such losses for the City Of Fargo.
And, ideally, when the City of Fargo has to eat the cost (because the contract with the tech company likely specifies that a facial recognition match is not sufficient grounds for arrest), it and every other municipality using similar tech will change its policing practices.
But probably the city will just quietly take responsibility for the damages after a session of contractually required private mediation, and nobody will learn a lesson.
