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Facial recognition AI misidentification leads to six-month wrongful imprisonment of elderly woman

Facial recognition AI misidentification leads to six-month wrongful imprisonment of elderly woman

Law enforcement relied on flawed AI facial recognition technology to arrest and jail an innocent grandmother

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