WRONGFUL ARREST

Jun 11 2026CRIME

When AI gets it wrong: A man’s fight against a faulty facial recognition system

In late 2023, a Florida man named Richard Dillon found himself in a nightmare no one should experience. Police arrested him for allegedly trying to lure a child away from a McDonald’s, all because an AI system claimed his face matched surveillance footage. The problem? Dillon was hundreds of miles a

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