• RobotToaster@mander.xyz
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    8 hours ago

    How can it be that bad?

    I’ve used zoom’s ai transcriptions, for far less mission critical stuff, and it’s generally fine, (I still wouldn’t trust it for medical purposes)

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      6 hours ago

      Whisper has been known to hallucinate during long moments of silence. Most of their examples though are most likely due to bad audio quality.

      I use whisper quite a bit and it will fumble a word here or there but never to the extent that is being shown in the article.

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      Zoom ai transcriptions also make things up.

      That’s the point. They’re hallucination engines. They pattern match and fill holes by design. It doesn’t matter if the match isn’t perfect, it will patch it over with nonsense instead.

    • ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      It’s not the transcripts that are the issue here. It’s that the transcripts are being interpreted by the model to give information.