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New York Detective Reportedly Misused Woody Harrelson's Face to Perform Face Recognition Search
When the facial recognition search for a CVS theft suspect's face returned no useful matches due to the surveillance footage being obscured and highly pixelated, a New York City police detective continued the face search using Woody Harrelson's face allegedly due to his resemblance to the suspect's face, eventually leading to the arrest of an unknown victim.
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- incident-report
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- reported
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2017-04-28T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2019-05-16T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
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