misidentification
Americannoun
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The AI’s misidentification and the human decisions that followed turned a normal evening into a traumatic confrontation.
From Salon • May 12, 2026
Occasionally, other black conservatives will enter our orbit of misidentification.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
Civil rights groups and privacy campaigners have consistently opposed LFRT, saying it invades people's privacy, and carries an unacceptable risk of misidentification.
From BBC • Aug. 20, 2025
Critics point to his “word salad” diatribes and his misidentification of key players — for instance, saying it was former U.N.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2024
Among the letters lambasting McCandless, virtually all those I received mentioned his misidentification of the caribou as proof that he didn’t know the first thing about surviving in the back- country.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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