Image Recognition
Detroit officials voted to continue using face recognition technology despite a lawsuit filed last week claiming the AI tool led to a false arrest of a woman who was eight months pregnant. Detroit Police Department/ FacebookPorcha Woodruff was falsely arrested in February because she was identified through facial recognition technology, according to a lawsuit she filed last week. “I was hurting, sitting on those concrete benches.”Woodruff is the sixth person to report being falsely accused of a crime as a result of facial recognition technology, the Times reported, but the first woman to report it. “There have been many reports that the individual arrested was because of misidentification of facial recognition," White said at the press conference. Police officials attributed the blame to a detective who allegedly presented an image generated by facial recognition technology to the victim in a photo lineup.