{"id":642672,"date":"2024-10-26T23:49:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T20:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/openais-whisper-transcription-tool-has-hallucination-issues-researchers-say\/"},"modified":"2024-10-26T23:49:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T20:49:16","slug":"openais-whisper-transcription-tool-has-hallucination-issues-researchers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/openais-whisper-transcription-tool-has-hallucination-issues-researchers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"#OpenAI\u2019s Whisper transcription tool has hallucination issues, researchers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Software engineers, developers, and academic researchers have serious concerns about tran<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>ions from OpenAI\u2019s Whisper, according to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ai-artificial-intelligence-health-business-90020cdf5fa16c79ca2e5b6c4c9bbb14\">a report in the Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While there\u2019s been no shortage of discussion around generative AI\u2019s tendency to hallucinate \u2014 basically, to make stuff up \u2014 it\u2019s a bit surprising that this is an issue in transcription, where you\u2019d expect the transcript closely follow the audio being transcribed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead researchers told the AP that Whisper has introduced everything from racial commentary to imagined medical treatments into transcripts. And that could be particularly disastrous as Whisper is adopted in hospitals and other medical contexts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A University of Michigan researcher studying public meetings found hallucinations in eight out of every 10 audio transcriptions. A machine learning engineer studied more than 100 hours of Whisper transcriptions and found hallucinations in more than half of them. And a developer reported finding hallucinations in nearly all the 26,000 transcriptions he created with Whisper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An OpenAI spokesperson said the company is \u201ccontinually working to improve the accuracy of our models, including reducing hallucinations\u201d and noted that its usage policies prohibit using Whisper \u201cin certain high-stakes decision-making contexts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe thank researchers for sharing their findings,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMN63nwsw68G3Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more like this article, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Technology<\/a><\/span> category.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/10\/26\/openais-whisper-transcription-tool-has-hallucination-issues-researchers-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Software engineers, developers, and academic researchers have serious concerns about transcriptions from OpenAI\u2019s Whisper, according to a report in the Associated Press. While there\u2019s been no shortage of discussion around generative AI\u2019s tendency to hallucinate \u2014 basically, to make stuff up \u2014 it\u2019s a bit surprising that this is an issue in transcription, where you\u2019d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":642673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/openAI-spiral-color-v2.jpg?resize=1200,675","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}