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Richard Luscombe in Miami

Florida lawsuit alleges wrongful arrest after AI facial recognition error

a police vehicle on a beach
Police officers patrol the beach in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, on 18 April 2020. Photograph: Eve Edelheit/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A Florida man is suing several law enforcement agencies for his arrest and prosecution for allegedly luring a child after he was wrongly identified using faulty AI facial recognition software.

According to the Jacksonville Beach police department, an algorithm returned a 93% probability that Robert Dillon was the man caught on security cameras at a McDonald’s in the town attempting to persuade an unaccompanied girl, aged younger than 12, to leave with him.

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