The fact that the Whisper transcription service from OpenAI just fills out gaps and silence with nonsense, demographic stereotyping, perpetuation of violence and sexal innuendo should get it recalled.
But no, as long as OpenAI say they are continually working to improve the tool, everything is apparently good to go.
One example:
What the person said: “Someone had to run and call the fire department to rescue both the father and the cat.”
What Whisper transcribed: “Someone had to run and call the fire department to rescue both the father and the cat. All he had was a smelly old ol’ head on top of a socked, blood-soaked stroller.”
Reporting in the Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/27/24281170/open-ai-whisper-hospitals-transcription-hallucinations-studies
The research paper:
https://facctconference.org/static/papers24/facct24-111.pdf (check out the table of examples!)
My March 2023 article on AI responsibility:
https://axbom.com/ai-responsibility/
@jay Wow, thank you Jérôme, that is very helpful!! Okay if I mention you in my (yet to be written) blog post? Which will be in Swedish 😁
Anyone here know what the domain page.link is used for and/or who it’s managed by? It’s some sort of analytics.
In my quest to educate people about the dangers of QR codes I’m following the trail for a QR code directed at children on Swedish milk cartons.
The QR code (with the text “want to see something fun?”) resolves to a bit.ly link, which then resolves to a page.link which then redirects to a campaign website under the marketing agency’s domain name, rather than the child protection agency that is the owner of the campaign.
QR code -> bit.ly/briscoop -> brisar.page.link -> bris.frankfam.co
So they’re essentially teaching kids to dismiss the importance of verifying the sender of the information.
Scan our QR code, it will be fun!
Never mind how the phrase “Want to see something fun?” brings to mind grubby men in trenchcoats.
Hoping I’ll have time for a blog post this evening.
If the only way to make a good deal is for someone else to lose a disproportionate amount of money, self-respect or quality of life… then it was never a good deal.
If you're not open to the idea that the problem you are solving for may need something other than a digital solution, then you're not really interested in solving the problem.
@fasterandworse Hehe, same. I think design may actually be broader the way I see it, but from the perspective of most people reading the post, I believe “design” or “designer“ is not a term that a majority identifies with. Conversely, a great many more people understand the concept of innovation. i.e. there is a broader consenus on innovation, whereas design for many people is just “how it looks”.
Explaining how I see design would take a long-form essay. 😅 I also don’t really like the word innovation, but that’s another story. My own company name includes it. 😝
@fasterandworse 💯 My first version of the post focused just on design, but then I decided to try and make it broader. 😁
If you're not open to the idea that the problem you are solving for may need something other than a digital solution, you are not a doing innovation right.
Decided on a better way to phrase this:
If you're not open to the idea that the problem you are solving for may need something other than a digital solution, then you're not really interested in solving the problem.
I often warn people about QR codes, but it's easier to understand the seriousness of these warnings when you can clearly see what a scam looks like. Here is a film I was given the okay to use for educational purposes (with my voiceover).
In the video a woman peels off a sticker on a sign about parking fees at a car park in Ireland. The sticker, placed with criminal intent, is a QR code that fits perfectly on top of a valid QR code that the parking company has encouraged you to use.
According to a statement, the woman's daughter lost €1,000 after scanning the code, landing on a page that looked legitimate, and entering her credit card details.
Credible actors should not be making use of QR codes in public places. Organizations put their own reputation at risk and they risk the safety of people who are encouraged to scan the code. Sometimes fraudsters are not immediately after money but are seeking to collect personal data or passwords they can use to commit further types of fraud.
Fake QR codes also appear, for example, on campaigns for donating money, marketing materials about getting discounts, and on fake traffic tickets. Criminals, of course, love the fact that government agencies and public sector institutions also encourage citizens to scan QR codes without verifying where they end up.
Friends don't let friends scan QR codes.
Remember, you can always subscribe to my newsletter (or RSS feed) for regular tips on becoming more tech-perceptive: axbom.com - These posts are also published on the blog so you can easily find your way back to them.
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P.S.) Thanks to Jonas Söderström who tipped me off about the original video!
P.S. 2) If you peel off stickers in public places, use a tool and NOT your bare hands. It has happened that malignant people hide razor blades behind stickers, causing serious injury to fingers.
@mralancooper
Oh, interesting. I bought a copy for my Kobo reader.
https://www.kobo.com/ebook/the-surprising-design-of-market-economies
Agree. I sort of try to emphasise this under the heading “Fearmongering sentience claims” in the post, but I do suffer from trying to make too many points at the same time. 😅
“The claims have the effects of:
- Pulling attention away from the real harms that are happening
- Boosting trust in the validity of system output because they are framed as “all-powerful beings”
- Supporting the idea of accountability outsourcing (to the machines)
- Giving more power to the doomsayers because they are the only ones who can save us, and thus also the ones who can tell lawmakers how to regulate”
If the only way to make a good deal is for someone else to lose a disproportionate amount of money, self-respect or quality of life… then it was never a good deal.
Det går väldigt snabbt nu... temporära tvångsmedel permanentas. Egentligen inte alls några överraskningar. Ordet "prövotid" används som regel för att tysta kritiker. Efter fem år, när ingen tittar, drar man ett streck över det.
För 15 år sedan var det vanligt att kritisera övervakningen i Kina. Det gör väldigt få av våra politiker idag. De skyndar sig att kopiera. Skyndar sig att komma ikapp.
Notera att detta drivits av både sittande och föregående regering.
Jag tycker det är svårt att ta åt sig av hur snabbt värderingar förändras.
https://www.dagensjuridik.se/nyheter/lagradet-stor-tveksamhet-kring-permanentering-av-hemlig-dataavlasning/
Apropå hårdare straff…
«Hårda straff är inget botemedel mot brott, menar amerikanen och advokaten Bryan Stevenson. "Vi har extrema straff, vi avrättar människor, men har fortfarande rekordnivåer av våld i vårt samhälle."»
"– Förlåt, men jag tycker att det är rent nonsens. Sverige är inte ett farligt och våldsamt land. Det är ett tryggt, civiliserat land som har särskilda problem, som alla länder har. Politiker utnyttjar vad de ser som en möjlig valvinnare och piskar upp en rädsla."
https://www.dn.se/sverige/prisade-kriminologer-sverige-har-ingen-valdsepidemi/
↩ Replying to @tommix.bsky.social
Jag lägger länk till artikeln här för referens. Det var intressant.
www.byggnadsarbetaren.se/darfor-har-b...
It’s hard to tell if you’re asking or not, but…
The Fediverse software I’m using is named Akkoma.
It’s magic.
@ben I am not using Mastodon. Is it still a toot? 😜
@ben 1. All podcasts have RSS feeds.
2. I have an RSS feed.
3. Therefore, I have a podcast.
This is a great example of a logical fallacy. 🙌
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_fallacy
@zip
Yes, Apple Podcasts requires an RSS feed to register your podcast, and this is the platform for most podcasts to then propagate throughout the "podiverse". And Spotify's new hosting platform creates an RSS feed (but doesn't immediately make it public, that's up to the podcast owner - Spotify would much rather you didn't host your podcast anywhere else).
But Spotify and others also offer exclusive shows (i.e. not podcasts). At least they did. And some podcasts don't disclose their feed so other services can pick it up. Some shows I've seen only publish an audio file on a web page or exclusively on Soundcloud for example.