Grandmother spent six months in jail after AI facial recognition misidentified her

https://www.techspot.com/news/111694-grandmother-spent-six-months-jail-after-ai-facial.html

37 Comments

  1. ithinkitslupis on

    >Lipps remained in a Tennessee jail for nearly four months without bail while awaiting extradition. She was charged with four counts of unauthorized use of personal identifying information and four counts of theft.

    dafuq. Bail needs reform too, you shouldn’t sit in jail 4 months while waiting for the legal process to move forward on a financial crime.

    >Lipps was released from jail on Christmas Eve. She was stranded in Fargo with no money, coat, or way to get home.

    Again, moved her from Tennessee to North Dakota on your own mistake…you have to foot the bill to get her home and safe.

    >As she could not pay her bills from jail, Lipps has lost her home, her car and even her dog. She said no one from the Fargo police department has even apologized for what happened.

    … this woman is getting all the money if I’m on that jury and not just because cops are using AI face recognition in dumb ways.

  2. *Grandmother spent 6 months in jail, lost her job, home, pet and car, because a whole lot of people didn’t do the most basic job requirements.

    FTFY

  3. So where is the accountability? How do you fine or jail an AI? Who ends up taking the hit for it? It’s ending up being a source of blame avoidance.

  4. PoultryTechGuy on

    Based on her Facebook profile she’s a xenophobic piece of shit and honestly she deserved to have a little wake up call

  5. False accusations must come with the punishment aimed at the victim for the perpetrators. Take all their belongings.

  6. Unctuous_Robot on

    What’d we fight a war for if we’re going to do British shit like this?

  7. Rattus_NorvegicUwUs on

    WHO IS ACCOUNTABLE?!

    They are forcing AI systems, with all their bugs and hallucinations, on to all of us. But when shit goes wrong, they expect us to just eat it?

    Fuck you. Do your god damn jobs.

    If cops want to outsource their jobs to software, maybe they need to be paid less.

  8. ThereInAFortnight on

    Every time I see this story posted there’s a picture of a different woman.

  9. bootstrap_sam on

    the scary part isnt even the AI getting it wrong, its that nobody in the entire chain of humans between the match and the arrest bothered to double check. six months. lost her house, her car, her dog. and no apology. the tech is just a convenient thing to blame so nobody has to take responsibility

  10. The problem here are clearly people not AI. It could be any other tool giving a wrong result. Someone should have validate info before they did anything with it.

  11. It’s really scary the lack of accountability for the police in USA.

    The only way for the citizens is to sue and, at best, they are paid some kind of economic compensation by the city hall or some other government, but looks like there are no consequences for the individuals or police departments. 

    Maybe I have that impression bc specially unfair situations, like this one, are the ones that make it to the news. But just to this kind of situations to happen, probably it’s due to the system itself.

  12. If a robot is going to accuse me of crimes, it needs to be the one arresting, transporting, and booking me. Either don’t use it at all or let the whole PD go job searching while robocop patrols the street.

  13. These are just the stories we hear about. Imagine the horrific bullshit that happens and we never even break it into the news because this kind of thing isn’t rare like it used to be.

  14. Due-Yogurtcloset-552 on

    why are we using LLM Tech for crime enforcement? shit can barely get a simple question right.

  15. KingKandyOwO on

    No apologies, no repayments, no nothing just an “oopsie woopsie we did a fucky wucky” and then they did one of these numbers 👉👈

  16. No, she spent six months in jail after lazy police officers failed to do their job by actually verifying her records. All it would have taken was ONE asshole 15 minutes to figure out this wasn’t their suspect.

    AI didn’t do shit. The bastards who couldn’t bother to get off their ass for a few minutes tore this woman’s life apart.

    Blame the right party here.

  17. FunkyPlunkett on

    There is a short movie about this, for the life of me I can not remember. The person who was misidentified had to work for a company from within the jail to afford a lawyer to get them off for being innocent. Yea we are now at that point.

  18. # Grandmother spent six months in jail after corrupt police used an AI tool KNOWN to be unreliable by anyone who gives a shit.

  19. And yet we are supposed to worship the pscyhos that put her in jail. Cops are pure evil. Fuck cops.

  20. confidentlyrong on

    Sounds similar to:

    https://thisisreno.com/2026/03/lawsuit-reno-police-ai-policing/

    They arrested a guy at a casino for trespassing. He had all kinds of valid ID and other documents proving he wasn’t the guy. They took him downtown and got his fingerprints for booking. Verified he wasn’t the guy. Wrongful arrest and they tried to move forward with it anyway.

    Believe he settled with the city