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AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case

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AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case

www.grandforksherald.com

RSS BotBM to Hacker NewsEnglish · 8 months ago
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Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail in Tennessee and North Dakota after being misidentified by Fargo police through AI facial recognition in a bank fraud investigation.

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    “But it’s not AI’s fault”

    Well, the purpose of a system is what it does

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