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overcorrection en · NOUN

Etymology

From over- + correction.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The correction of something to an excessive degree, usually resulting in an error in the opposite direction.
    • The statement follows criticism that it depicted specific white figures (like the US Founding Fathers) or groups like Nazi-era German soldiers as people of color, possibly as an overcorrection to long-standing racial bias problems in AI. 2024 February 21, Adi Robertson, “Google apologizes for “missing the mark” after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis”, in The Verge:

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Antonyms

undercorrection

Relateds

hypercorrection