ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RECOGNIZES – AND JAILS – THE WRONG ...
By now we've all heard those bizarre stories of an artificial intelligence going berserk and doing strange things. There was the case of the man who ordered his AI not to tamper with his corporate records. The AI not only proceeded to do just that, but the "tampering" in that case consisted of erasing the entirety of the man's corporate records. There was the case of the US Air Force simulation/test where the AI took out its own human operator (see https://gizadeathstar.com/2023/06/about-that-story-about-the-rogue-but-harmless-artificial-intelligence/) and there was the recent story about some insurers not wanting to insure any AU project at all because the risk is not only too high, but too difficult to assess (see https://gizadeathstar.com/2025/12/insurance-no-way-artificial-intelligence-is-too-risky/), a story that would seem to gain some more traction once one ponders today's story shared (with our gratitude) by M.D.:
While the headlines to the article say it all, there are some details worth pondering:
A Tennessee grandmother spent nearly six months in jail after police in Fargo, North Dakota, used facial recognition software to identify her as the primary suspect in a bank fraud case, according to reporting by WDAY News.
The problem was that Angela Lipps, 50, had never been to North Dakota, and bank records confirmed she was more than 1,200 miles away at the time of the alleged crimes. Her case is the latest in a documented pattern of wrongful arrests driven by facial recognition technology deployed without adequate investigative follow-up.
Fargo police were investigating a series of bank fraud incidents in April and May last year, in which a woman used a fake U.S. Army ID to withdraw tens of thousands of dollars. Detectives ran surveillance footage through facial recognition software, which returned a match to Lipps. A detective then compared her Tennessee driver's license and social media images to the suspect and concluded that she was the perpetrator based on facial features, body type, and hair. Nobody from the department contacted Lipps before U.S. Marshals arrested her at gunpoint on July 14 while she was babysitting four children.
So in other words, police acted on information provided by an AI without properly questioning the results of the AI itself: moreover, they apparently had no corroborating human testimony.
But there's more:
Lipps sat in a Tennessee county jail for 108 days before North Dakota officers collected her. Her attorney, Jay Greenwood, immediately requested her bank records, and when Fargo police finally met with Greenwood and Lipps on December 19, five months after her arrest, the records showed she had been buying cigarettes and depositing Social Security checks in Tennessee at the time police placed her in Fargo. 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.
And here's the crux:
Shockingly, this is just the latest in a series of structural failures that have led to innocent people being persecuted for crimes they didn’t commit. A January 2025 WaPo investigation documented at least eight instances of Americans wrongfully arrested after police found a possible FRT match, and in every case, investigators skipped fundamental steps like checking alibis and comparing physical descriptions that would have cleared the suspect before arrest.
The facial recognition vendors themselves, such as Clearview AI, even attach explicit caveats to their systems. Clearview requires agencies to acknowledge that results "are indicative and not definitive" and that officers must conduct further research before acting on them. (Emphasis added)
Clearly, due process - which in these instances should be understood to include the use of sound investigative procedures prior to any arrest being made - was simply not followed. Rather, the artificial intelligence appears to have been used not only to indicate possible suspects, but to testify prima facie against them. In short, police are treating AI almost as if it were a grand jury, handing down a bill of indictment.
This brings me to my high octane speculation of the day. One instance is a sad fluke, two instances of such a procedure is a coincidence, and three or more is a pattern, and if a pattern, deliberate. So what is the goal here? I rather suspect it's the obvious one that all tyrannies employ while masquerading behind a parade of seeming justice; this practice is, in short, the newest iteration of lawfare: use AI to accuse someone of a crime when no other indicators are present, and then exhaust that individual's resources trying to maintain their innocence in the legal system, and if it does not progress that far, one at least has the AI "identification" of an individual involved in some sort of dubious activity. If the "tool" does not lead to an arrest, it can at least help smear. One may thus view cases such as that of the unfortunate Ms. Lipps as trial balloons... beta tests of a system designed for much bigger targets.
In the meantime, let's hope Ms. Lipps is able to retain some very good lawyers, and force Fargo to restore her property...
...and then some.
See you on the flip side.
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I suggest folks study up on “Notices of Liability”. Cal Washington has perfected this Law Merchant process, and he teaches it through his inpower.com website. With these processes the citizens or community aren’t held liable for the damage caused by over zealous actors, the actors themselves are held liable. If you want to view an interview with Cal, please go to Alex Zach’s website at “The Way Forward”, https://open.spotify.com/episode/4DHmOOaEvIJ34XvsM5Kw09
Don’t get angry, get in action!!
My city on the Front Range in CO against the wishes of all the citizenry , just ‘voted’ for the use of Automatic Licence Plate Readers on most of the major streets in town. We already had beaucoup discussions and protests against using Flock cameras and not wanting our lives tracked via face and plate, so the Proggy idiots on the Council, (I didnt vote for these ones, as if it matters) many of whom are new as in the last year (new Mayor too, of course a female librarian type with 2 last names), voted in the ALPR surveillance state anyway, but instead of using Flock, they voted to use Axon (the body cam company) as if that was really okay.
I think we should all black out our plates now in protest.
Hi Big Brother, go eff yourself.
A 2015-love affair with the ClA.
1. In the autumn of 2015, I had a scheduled meeting, with the secret police in Oslo, and, during that meeting, that was held, at the police headquarters, then a brazen ClA agent walks in, all of a sudden, and parades around premises, as if he owns the place.
2. Of course, that was a tactical mistake. Because, half an hour before – while heading for the meeting – I had, coincidentally, observed that same ClA agent on the public metro transport. The foreign-looking ClA agent had been blatantly staring at me, and, he stood out from the crowd, as non-indigenous.
3. When I arrived, at the police headquarters, I was greeted, by two nice-looking police ladies, freshly out of police school, and, they apologised, that unforeseen circumstances prevented us, from using the normal interrogation room, so we had to make use, of the glassy entrance hall, instead.
4. Of course, it meant, that the heavily ‘bugged’ interrogation room wasn’t going, to produce any high-definition audiovisuals, which had the ClA agent so frustrated, that he made the tactical mistake, of wandering the halls, where I could read him like an open book, and put two and two together, and disclose his intent.
5. In 2015, my Scandinavian ‘bard monster’ was a ‘person of interest’, to the ClA, which, automatically, leads, to the Norwegian police making internal investigation, and questioning, why the ClA is so eager, to have me measured up, for an orange pyjamas, to be airlifted to Guantanamo, for a standup comedy show.
6. Simultaneously, in 2015, I was seeking audience, with the Nordic Council, in a session, at the Norwegian parliament, which any concerned citizen, in Scandinavia, has the right to apply for, according, to the Nordic Council’s own fancy handbills, and glossy propaganda, that present the Nordic democracies, as utopia.
7. In 1952, the Nordic Council was created, as a secret NATO expansion, eastwards, which lead, to a Soviet protest, because it undermined Finland’s neutrality. The creation of the Nordic Council was followed up, by the ratified Helsinki Treaty, in 1962, which means, that the good will, and favour, between the Nordic countries has been taken hostage, and turned into a NATO proxy.
8. In 2015, I was agitating the ‘bardic monster’, on the Nordic scene, in Oslo, and to prevent me, from speaking, at a Nordic Council session, in Oslo, would have wide ramifications, because where I go, Scandinavia goes, and, when I rally the rabble, the riffraff get aroused, and, then cometh the rabble-rouser stampede.
It is obvious, that the ClA is protecting the Epstein empire, of double agents, on Scandinavian thrones – because AlPAC has invested interest, in royal Pinocchio nosejobs, in the overseas colonies:
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Of course, if Ms. Lipps does win a lawsuit against the city of Fargo it won’t be the perpetrators who will foot the bill. It will be the taxpaying citizens, most of whom had nothing to do with this injustice — and if Fargo is like most other cities, where the powers that be connive to do as they please despite their voters’ objections, those citizens are effectively powerless to prevent it.
The police chief might get fired, sure, but will soon land a similar or better job heading up the force in some other city. Happens all the time.
True enough… so we need to develop mechanisms to find those responsible, and hold them accountable. I hope, however, my intention was obvious.
Didn’t the Fargo police think about ordering the Tennessee police to arrest Ms. Lips since she never live ever lived in North Dakota? Lawyers will have a field day with this Case Minority Report, anyone
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