overcorrection
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From over- + correction.
Noun
[edit]overcorrection (countable and uncountable, plural overcorrections)
- The correction of something to an excessive degree.
- 2024 February 21, Adi Robertson, “Google apologizes for “missing the mark” after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis”, in The Verge[1]:
- 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.