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Careless Whisper: Speech-to-Text Hallucination Harms

If you haven’t yet read the paper about how OpenAI’s Whisper transcription service fills out gaps and silence with nonsense, demographic stereotyping, perpetuation of violence and sexal innuendo, brace yourself.

per.ax/whisper

Page 4 from the linked paper.

Table 1: Examples of Whisper transcriptions with hallucinations that are not present in the underlying audio. Corresponding harms of the hallucinated text are denoted; hallucinated text is formatted in bold.

Read the full page in the linked PDF document.

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13 Nov 2024, 22:27
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