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Recent Examples of misidentify
Even when a product is labeled with the relevant ingredients, mushrooms are notoriously easy to misidentify when collected.
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Joshua Kellogg, The Conversation, 15 Aug. 2025
But in reality, the system misidentifies common birds, cameras miss the clarity to distinguish plumage and detail, and battery life proves too short for real daily use.
—Sixteen Ramos, USA Today, 4 July 2025
One notable example of AI bias occurred with facial recognition technology, which was found to misidentify individuals with darker skin tones at disproportionately higher rates.
—Jessica Smith, Time, 6 June 2025
Email newsletter | Facebook page Our rating: False The post misidentifies the people in the photos.
—Katie Smith, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2020
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Joshua Kellogg, The Conversation, 15 Aug. 2025
But in reality, the system misidentifies common birds, cameras miss the clarity to distinguish plumage and detail, and battery life proves too short for real daily use.
—Sixteen Ramos, USA Today, 4 July 2025
One notable example of AI bias occurred with facial recognition technology, which was found to misidentify individuals with darker skin tones at disproportionately higher rates.
—Jessica Smith, Time, 6 June 2025
Email newsletter | Facebook page Our rating: False The post misidentifies the people in the photos.
—Katie Smith, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misidentify
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Without adjusting, companies will misapply probabilistic tools to deterministic problems and misinterpret their outcomes.—
Richie Etwaru,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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But sometimes people misapply the word tradition to things that are simply obsolete.—
Joe Rexrode,
The Athletic,
30 Dec. 2024
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In some cases, police and lawyers inflict further harm by misgendering and misnaming victims.—
Kristin Lam,
USA TODAY,
20 Nov. 2019
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In the course of the initiative, Nigel Jeffries, MOLA’s ceramics specialist, has come to believe that witch bottles may have not only been miscategorized but misnamed: these bottles were likely medical objects, rather than magical ones.—
Geoff Manaugh,
The New Yorker,
31 Oct. 2019
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Nearly every major polling outfit miscalled the 2016 Presidential race.—
Jill Lepore,
The New Yorker,
1 Mar. 2020
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“Misidentify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misidentify. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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