Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.”
But Whisper has a major flaw: It is prone to making up chunks of text or even entire sentences, according to interviews with more than a dozen software engineers, developers and academic researchers. Those experts said some of the invented text — known in the industry as hallucinations — can include racial commentary, violent rhetoric and even imagined medical treatments.
Experts said that such fabrications are problematic because Whisper is being used in a slew of industries worldwide to translate and transcribe interviews, generate text in popular consumer technologies and create subtitles for videos.
once again AI is a cool trick your uncle learned in the army and not actual Gandalf level magic
I’m a stenographer. People ask me if I am concerned with AI taking my job and I say notttt yettt.
Violent rhetoric? “Doctor Johnson recommends punching the patient in his fucking face until he squeals! Now to make pizza get a bottle of Elmer’s glue…”
Fantasy in, fantasy out. Don’t use it if you don’t know this or if you can’t repair its mistakes.
Yes… you already said it was an AI tool?
Digital lying box… That lies to you.
Politicians take interest.
