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Recent Examples of misclassify
This pairing speeds resolution, improves accuracy and maintains trust, whereas full automation could misclassify or frustrate customers.
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Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
For one, adversarial attacks designed to mislead AI models can be used by malicious actors to misclassify data.
—Connie Etemadi, Miami Herald, 28 Jan. 2026
These findings are consistent with a growing body of research showing how AI systems often misclassify, perpetuate discrimination toward or otherwise harm trans and disabled people.
—Oliver L. Haimson, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2025
The scientists note their attacks could make deep learning systems misclassify images up to 100 percent of the time, and that modified images were imperceptible from real ones to the human eye.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2018
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Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
For one, adversarial attacks designed to mislead AI models can be used by malicious actors to misclassify data.
—Connie Etemadi, Miami Herald, 28 Jan. 2026
These findings are consistent with a growing body of research showing how AI systems often misclassify, perpetuate discrimination toward or otherwise harm trans and disabled people.
—Oliver L. Haimson, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2025
The scientists note their attacks could make deep learning systems misclassify images up to 100 percent of the time, and that modified images were imperceptible from real ones to the human eye.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2018
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Dutch mathematician Jacobus Verhoeff reported in 1969 that two errors—mistyping a single digit and swapping two neighboring digits of one’s card number—account for nearly 90 percent of all human input errors in practice.—
Jack Murtagh,
Scientific American,
12 Aug. 2025
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Correction: Arkansas' team ERA was initially mistyped and has been corrected.—
Matt Jones,
Arkansas Online,
7 Apr. 2025
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Daxon Rudolph’s offensive upside Carels, Reid, Šmits and Verhoeff are generally viewed as the top-four defensemen in the class, but some scouts lump Daxon Rudolph into the same tier.—
Peter Baugh,
New York Times,
19 June 2026
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We’re often lumped under the umbrella of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.—
Ryan Macasero,
Mercury News,
12 June 2026
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“Misclassify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misclassify. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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