# AI Transcription Tool in Hospitals is Fabricating Text! 😲

**URL:** <https://onehack.st/t/ai-transcription-tool-in-hospitals-is-fabricating-text/294698>\
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**Tags:** tools, data-recovery, technology\
**Created:** [October 29, 2024, 1:48pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/ai-transcription-tool-in-hospitals-is-fabricating-text/294698 "2024-10-29T13:48:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 1:48pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/ai-transcription-tool-in-hospitals-is-fabricating-text/294698/1 "2024-10-29T13:48:51Z")

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**Summary:**

1. **Whisper’s Promised Capabilities**  
OpenAI’s **Whisper** , an AI-powered transcription tool, has been marketed as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.”

2. **Major Flaw Identified**  
However, researchers have found that Whisper frequently **invented** text, producing false chunks or even entire sentences, a phenomenon known as **hallucinations**.

3. **Nature of Hallucinations**  
These fabrications can include problematic content, such as **racial commentary** , **violent rhetoric** , and **imagined medical treatments**.

4. **Extent of the Issue**  
The scale of the hallucination problem is concerning, with one researcher reporting that **80%** of transcriptions contained errors, while another found hallucinations in **half** of the analyzed transcripts.

5. **Impact on Transcription Reliability**  
Even in well-recorded audio, hallucinations were common, with a study revealing **187 hallucinations** across **13,000** clear audio snippets. This trend could lead to tens of thousands of faulty transcriptions across millions of recordings.

**Read more at:** [AP News](https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-health-business-90020cdf5fa16c79ca2e5b6c4c9bbb14?taid=671cde7444b38d00014b98db)