KI-Fehler: Unschuldige Großmutter im Betrugsfall in North Dakota für Monate inhaftiert
https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/north-dakota/ai-error-jails-innocent-grandmother-for-months-in-north-dakota-fraud-case
KI-Fehler: Unschuldige Großmutter im Betrugsfall in North Dakota für Monate inhaftiert
https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/north-dakota/ai-error-jails-innocent-grandmother-for-months-in-north-dakota-fraud-case
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Total failure of law enforcement in two states?!
> [she] „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 […] she said she’s never been to North Dakota […] spending nearly her entire life in north-central Tennessee. The extent of her travels is limited to neighboring states. She’s never been on an airplane in her life.“
We’re in that „brand new tech“ time period when, if AI does something wrong that has real consequences for innocent people the default response is (throws up hands): „*there’s no way to prevent this.*“
From a local news source:
> [she] „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 […] she said she’s never been to North Dakota […] spending nearly her entire life in north-central Tennessee. The extent of her travels is limited to neighboring states. She’s never been on an airplane in her life.“
https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/north-dakota/ai-error-jails-innocent-grandmother-for-months-in-north-dakota-fraud-case
She lost her house, her job, her car, even her dog…..
The police also abandoned her in a state she didnt live in with no money and no way home.
the wildest part is that basic detective work wouldve cleared this up in like an hour. she never left tennessee, never been on a plane, and they still shipped her across the country based on a facial recognition match? thats not an AI problem thats a „we stopped doing our jobs because a computer said so“ problem
looking at her facebook profile she started posting rage slop about immigrants immediately after getting out of jail. lol
The tour dates I Googled today had in the “AI Overview” upcoming tour dates for 2025. The other results were regular/as expected.
AI doesn’t know what day it is and that seems to be a major effing problem. At the least.
Damn. That’s terrible. How did it go so wrong?
Her great grandchildren are not gonna know poverty from the check this woman about to get. Jesus
If this woman isn’t suing that police department for at least half a million in damages, she needs to get on that.
Humans illegally kidnapped and jailed an innocent grandmother for six months. She lost her home, her car, and her dog because lazy incompetent bastards couldn’t be bothered to simply verify records.
AI did nothing. Place the blame on the incompetence of law enforcement that could have avoided this entire tragedy by simply doing their f*cking jobs.
ACAB.
This happened in my town. I just can’t fathom how it got to the point where she was extradited here without SOMEONE in the legal system taking a look at the claim that she never was in North Dakota. From the police to the prosecutor to the judges *in both states*, how?
Further, had this woman had money, she likely would not have spent any time in jail, which is gross and speaks to the inequities of our entire system.
*Complete* miscarriage of justice. This woman deserves a payday and we citizens deserve an answer as to how this happened. Also, the Police Chief is retiring, so I am sure they will scapegoat him, but it goes much, much further.
It’s going to take lawsuits with big payouts to stop this stuff. Only money talks in this fucked up country.
…stand by, if the fascists get their way they will weaponize AI. The headline will not be “jailed” it will be “obliterated” because of AI error.
Grandma better get paid some fat stacks. Trusting AI to do law enforcement work is genuinely one of the most insane things I’ve ever heard of.
Considering how many people tell me I look just like their cousin or friend or 2nd grade teacher or whomever, I’m a AI facial match just waiting to happen.
The grandmother’s nose has a noticeably different shape and her chin is also more prominent. You don’t even have to look closely. Someone really didn’t do their job!
We must ban AI!!!
Why the hell are we using virtual intelligence (calling it AI is like calling a house cat a tiger; yeah they’ve got similarities, but are nowhere near the same) for law enforcement?
the part that gets me is how „AI error“ in the headline becomes a shield for every human who failed along the way. a detective who couldn’t be bothered to check whether this woman had ever left tennessee. a DA who filed charges anyway. a judge who set bail she couldn’t pay. a system that kept her locked up for SIX MONTHS.
if a human eyewitness had misidentified her, we’d be talking about the cops who didn’t verify, the prosecutors who didn’t do due diligence. but slap „AI“ on it and suddenly nobody’s individually responsible — it’s just a „technology error“ and everyone shrugs.
this is what i keep calling accountability laundering. the same lazy police work that’s always existed, but now with a fancy algorithmic excuse that makes it nobody’s fault. she lost half a year of her life and i guarantee not a single person in that chain will face any professional consequences.