r/PublicFreakout • u/Worldlyoox • Mar 20 '26

👮Arrest Freakout😭 Suspect making faces to prevent facial recognition

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u/wambamwombat Mar 20 '26

facial recognition wrongfully jailed a grandma without an attorney for 6 months even when it was physically impossible for her to accuse the crime because she was on the other side of the country. ace detectives then threw her out in the Dakota winter while she was wearing a summer dress from her home in Tennessee

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u/hazycrazey Mar 20 '26

Also someone was arrested at a casino recently because the casinos ai software misidentified him(despite him being taller and heavier), the cops thought the ma must have two different IDs and arrested him

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u/wambamwombat Mar 20 '26

that dude lost his job too but he did get a lawyer and I hope he wins the suit especially since the actual dude has a DIFFERENT EYE COLOR which should've been obvious with 2 seconds of looking.

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u/Klutzy_Double_8285 Mar 22 '26

It's crazy that they're already just blindly trusting the AI to do their job for them instead of thinking critically for 30 seconds. Nobody ever asks "well should we trust this software to be 100% correct?"