Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said

ronjor · Oct 26, 2024

By GARANCE BURKE and HILKE SCHELLMANN October 26, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.”
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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.
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