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US news
fromSlate Magazine
9 hours ago

Immigration Agents Are Killing and Abusing People. So Civilians Are Turning to a Controversial Tool to Find Justice.

A.I.-generated images and crowdsourced unmasking on social media are being used to identify ICE agents, producing viral misidentifications, harassment, and real-world harms.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

Blurry rats and coyotes with mange: the oddly thrilling subreddit dedicated to identifying wildlife

Ambiguous, low-quality wildlife photos produce excitement and fear, driving online communities to correct misidentifications and reveal mundane explanations like coyotes with mange.
fromwww.npr.org
2 weeks ago

AI images and internet rumors spread confusion about ICE agent involved in shooting

AI-powered enhancement has a tendency to hallucinate facial details leading to an enhanced image that may be visually clear, but that may also be devoid of reality with respect to biometric identification,
US news
fromJezebel
3 weeks ago

You May Hate Bureaucracy, but Not as Much as the Guy Who Lost His License for Someone Else's Crime From 20 Years Ago

No one heads down to the DMV, or to their state's Department of Driver Services, expecting to have a positive experience. This loathing for the most pedantic elements of our state bureaucracies is more or less baked into us at the cellular level at this point: I would wager that most people would prefer to go to their dentist for tooth drilling, or be summoned for jury duty, than face the prospect of waiting for hours at the DMV only to be told that they haven't brought the right forms or proof of ID or address to make a desperately needed change.
US news
fromFuturism
1 month ago

AI Sends School Into Lockdown After It Mistook a Student's Clarinet for a Gun

The whole thing unraveled quickly, according to local reporting. When the alert went out, it triggered an automatic "code red," giving administrators no choice but to react to the AI system's decision. Luckily nobody was hurt, and local police soon declared the lockdown over. "The code red was a precaution and the children were never in any danger," local police wrote in a Facebook post.
Privacy technologies
California
fromThe Mercury News
1 month ago

After two hung juries, Oakland murder case goes down in flames

Murder charges against Elijah Rucker in Romell Wright's Jan. 7 killing were dropped after two deadlocked juries; Rucker received 32 months for a gun charge.
#bairds-beaked-whale
US news
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month ago

CNN's Jake Tapper Identifies Pipe Bomb Suspect as White Man' Before Airing Photo Showing Otherwise

Brian Cole Jr., a 30-year-old suspect in the 2021 D.C. pipe-bomb incidents, was arrested and mistakenly identified as white despite photos showing he is Black.
fromPoynter
2 months ago

Bill de Blasio or DeBlasio? What happened when a longstanding newspaper failed to verify its source.

Turns out, the Times of London reporter Bevan Hurley hadn't talked to the former New York City mayor. The actual former mayor put out a statement on social media saying the quotes were not his, and that he never spoke to Hurley. The paper quickly yanked the story from its website and said it had personally apologized to de Blasio.
US politics
#wildlife-crime
fromBoston.com
4 months ago

Charges dropped against Falmouth 18-year-old accused of planning school shooting

In late August, Fotheringham was reported to police after he "indicated that he wanted to shoot up a school," prosecutors had alleged. However, officials "learned of a discrepancy which made further prosecution in the District Court no longer available, and the Commonwealth entered a nolle prosequi in the case supported by an affidavit by the prosecutor assigned to the case,"
US news
fromsfist.com
4 months ago

Man Who SF Medical Examiner Wrongly Declared Dead In 2021 Is Now, In Fact, Dead

Four years after a stunning mishap where the SF Medical Examiner notified a family that their father had been declared dead, and then he turned up alive, the same man has, in fact, now died. It was exactly one year ago today when the Chronicle broke the story that a man who the SF Medical Examiner's Office had declared dead, and even sent his family the ashes, was actually still very much alive on the streets of San Francisco.
San Francisco
LGBT
fromAdvocate.com
4 months ago

No, this transgender woman is not the Charlie Kirk assassin

A Seattle transgender woman was falsely identified online as the shooter in Charlie Kirk's Utah killing, causing harassment and real-world harm.
#facial-recognition
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
5 months ago

Nancy Mace Torched for Pushing Pic of Innocent Student in University of South Carolina Campus Shooter Scare

Representative Nancy Mace circulated a misidentified student's image as an alleged shooter during a campus lockdown, drawing widespread backlash and safety concerns.
Miscellaneous
fromBoston.com
6 months ago

Report of rare venomous snake in Mass. city likely 'a case of misidentification,' state officials say

A common northern watersnake was misidentified as a rare venomous copperhead in Attleboro.
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