Tennessee grandmother wrongly jailed for six months, latest victim of AI-driven misidentification — facial recognition is jailing the wrong people, but police keep using it anyway.

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• null@lemmy.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The case was dismissed on Christmas Eve, but the damage had already been done; she had no money, no coat, and no way home, and subsequently lost her house, her car, and her dog.

  The AI fucking up is noteworthy, but real story is right here.

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  • Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s entirely unnoteworthy in a country that actively disables social welfare. A feature of the system, even.

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• SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Of course the cops keep using it - payments from the inevitable lawsuits don’t come out of their pockets, so why give a shit when there are quotas to make? No accountability breeds irresponsibility.

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That would fix it quickly. Wrongful arrest takes funding directly from the agency that did it. 6months in prison, all funds for 6months for that agency. Either everyone will quit or they would shut down completely. Asking the police officers to work for no pay for 6 months would eventually pit them against others making wrongful arrests and make those who don’t care about doing whats right quit because they don’t care about anything but the paycheck. The only people you might have left are those who actually wanted to help the people.

    Or they’d just become more corrupt and kill more people to make sure they had no say… Hard to say

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• baltakatei@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No one loved her enough to fight to free her, so she wasn’t worth much to society anyways. — the local DA, probably

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• kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Lazy pigs

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• nucleative@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I thought filing egregiously inaccurate documents with the court was risking contempt of court (in the best of cases).

  Ignoring the court itself, I’d think for a prosecutor or cop this would lead to pretty bad performance reviews.

  But if the system has no standards…

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• IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  America makes terrorists and enemies.

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  • Bonesince1997@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There is a woman in this story that lost a lot, due to an untrustworthy and invasive technology. What the hell are you talking about?

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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      All it took for John Wick was losing a dog. This lady lost more. I think the commenter thinks America is an action movie?

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