@mcnado@mstdn.social @Gargron@mastodon.social That woman deserves 5x that amount of money, if not more. And yea, fuck those cops. But don’t default to blaming the “AI”. Facial recognition software has been around for decades but is generally unreliable. The reason she was wrongfully arrested is the cops fed a fake military ID to the system, not the actual surveillance footage. Had they sent actual pictures of the actual robber into the system, the outcome would have been dramatically different. This was entirely malicious incompetence by humans, and I hope she wins every penny she’s going after. (MAJOR EDIT- post went out with “generally reliable”, when I meant to type “generally unreliable” - apologies!)