Flutterby™! : OpenAI Whisper speech recognition hallucinations

Hmmmm... Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said

A speaker in another recording described “two other girls and one lady.” Whisper invented extra commentary on race, adding "two other girls and one lady, um, which were Black.”

In a third transcription, Whisper invented a non-existent medication called “hyperactivated antibiotics.”

Some of the examples in Careless Whisper: Speech-to-Text Hallucination Harms are pretty amazingly egregious.

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2402.08021