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Imagine going to the doctor, telling them exactly how you're feeling and then a transcription later adds false information and alters your story. That could be the case in medical centers that use Whisper, OpenAI's transcription tool . Over a dozen developers, software engineers and academic researchers have found evidence that. Yet, in the last month, open-source AI platform HuggingFace saw 4.2 million downloads of Whisper's latest version.
The harmful evidence is quite extensive, with experts finding significant faults with Whisper across the board. Take a University of Michigan researcher who found invented text in eight out of ten audio transcriptions of public meetings. In another study, computer scientists found 187 hallucinations while analyzing over 13,000 audio recordings.
The potential danger becomes even clearer when looking at specific examples of these hallucinations. Two professors, Allison Koenecke and Mona Sloane of Cornell University and the University of Virginia, respectively, looked at clips from a research repository called TalkBank. The pair found that nearlyhad the potential to be misinterpreted or misrepresented. In one case, Whisper invented that three people discussed were Black.
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