North Carolina man spent 50 days in jail after Florida police wrongfully arrested him using an AI facial recognition match

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Jalil Richardson of North Carolina spent over 50 days in jail after Jacksonville police wrongfully arrested him based on an AI facial recognition match with an 85% confidence level, despite his alibi being hundreds of miles away at work.

https://preview.redd.it/1fydr95tmm6h1.png?width=686&format=png&auto=webp&s=dfde2b27b426aa5ae1a3d3483b0fb5e15c5b88cf Jalil Richardson of North Carolina is free after spending over 50 days in jail due to an inaccurate AI-integrated facial recognition system. Jacksonville police used surveillance video to find an 85 percent match, but Richardson was clocked into his North Carolina job hundreds of miles away when the crime occurred. The case was dropped after Richardson and his lawyers established the alibi in court. Wrongful arrests based on facial recognition software are becoming a pattern for the department. Source: [https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/innocent-man-jail-ai-facial-recognition-arrest](https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/innocent-man-jail-ai-facial-recognition-arrest)
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