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Imagine going to the doctor, telling them exactly how you're feeling and then a transcription later adds false information and alters your story. That could be the case in medical centers that use Whisper, OpenAI's transcription tool. Over a dozen developers, software engineers and academic researchers have found evidence that Whisper creates hallucinations invented text that includes made up medications, racial commentary and violent remarks, ABC News reports. Yet, in the last month, open-source AI platform HuggingFace saw 4.2 million downloads of Whisper's latest version. The tool is also built into Oracle and Microsoft's cloud computing platforms, along with some versions of ChatGPT. The harmful evidence is quite extensive, with experts finding significant faults with Whisper across the board. Take a University of Michigan researcher who found invented text in eight out of ten audio transcriptions of public meetings. In another study, computer scientists found 187 hallucinations while analyzing over 13,000 audio recordings. The trend continues: A machine learning engineer found them in about half of 100 hours-plus worth of transcriptions, while a developer spotted hallucinations in almost all of the 26,000 transcriptions he had Whisper create. The potential danger becomes even clearer when looking at specific examples of these hallucinations. Two professors, Allison Koenecke and Mona Sloane of Cornell University and the University of Virginia, respectively, looked at clips from a research repository called TalkBank. The pair found that nearly 40 percent of the hallucinations had the potential to be misinterpreted or misrepresented. In one case, Whisper invented that three people discussed were Black. In another, Whisper changed "He, the boy, was going to, Im not sure exactly, take the umbrella." to "He took a big piece of a cross, a teeny, small piece ... Im sure he didnt have a terror knife so he killed a number of people." Whisper's hallucinations also have risky medical implications. A company called Nabla utilizes Whisper for its medical transcription tool, used by over 30,000 clinicians and 40 health systems so far transcribing an estimated seven million visits. Though the company is aware of the issue and claims to be addressing it, there is currently no way to check the validity of the transcripts. The tool erases all audio for "data safety reasons," according to Nablas chief technology officer Martin Raison. The company also claims that providers must quickly edit and approve the transcriptions (with all the extra time doctors have?), but that this system may change. Meanwhile, no one else can confirm the transcriptions are accurate because of privacy laws. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/openais-whisper-invents-parts-of-transcriptions--a-lot-120039028.html?src=rss
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If youve used Cash App in the last six years, you might be entitled to compensation as part of a class-action settlement. The company set up a $15 million fund after breaches enabled a trove of user personal data to leak. You can file a claim through a dedicated settlement website, and depending on what you can prove, you could receive up to $2,500. If theres a downside beyond having your private financial data leaked, its that youve only got until November 19 to file. Dan Cooper Get this delivered daily direct to your inbox. Subscribe right here! News in Brief Panic hits pause on the Playdate Stereo Dock, says its unlikely well see it anytime soonAlas, making the dock was almost harder than making the Playdate itself. Ongoing notifications similar to Apples Live Activities could come to AndroidTheyre very useful. What to read this week: Jeff VanderMeer returns to Area XThis includes a fourth book in the Southern Reach series, which began with Annihilation. Lyft will have to tell drivers how much they can truly earn, with evidenceIt promised would-be driver rates only its top earners made. Apple reportedly tested a blood glucose monitoring appStill no closer to the dream of a non-invasive glucose monitor. 8Bitdo has a new $50 Android gaming controller with Hall effect sticks and triggersThere are trade-offs, but for that sort of money, you cant complain. McDonald's restaurants can finally repair their own McFlurry machinesOur long national nightmare is over. Google is reportedly developing Jarvis AI that could take over your web browser Itll be good for, uh, research. Google Google is reportedly developing an AI agent for Chrome to act as a live assistant for your daily browsing. Codenamed Jarvis, because of course it is, it will help you with common tasks, like research, shopping and booking flights. Perhaps you could ask it to look at every price comparison website, collate the results and select the cheapest option. Maybe, in future, it could even buy, use and enjoy the thing youre looking to purchase while you sit at your computer. Continue Reading. Mosseri confirms Instagram reduces video quality for posts not raking in views High-resolution playback is for closers. If youve ever noticed one of your Instagram videos looks worse now than it did before, theres a reason. Instagram head Adam Mosseri revealed the platform intentionally downgrades video quality for clips not pulling eyeballs. Which feels like Instagrams putting its finger on the scale for folks whove already cracked the secret of virality against those still working it out. Continue Reading. Apple may tap into a beloved retro design for its smart home display Everyone loves the Sunflower iMac G4. Apple As elegant as Apples computers are, the last one to transcend that and become beautiful was the iMac G4. Now, the rumor mill is hinting the companys long-rumored smart home display may wind up using the same design. On one hand, great, who doesnt want to see what Apple can do with that design? On the other, Apples lackluster commitment to the smart home means itll probably be a pointless waste of money anyway. Continue Reading. Apple wins $250 in Masimo smartwatch patent case Siri, can you look up Pyrrhic in the dictionary? Masimo The endless battle between Apple and Masimo has seen the bigger company win its latest courtroom skirmish. Apple successfully argued some of Masimos watches infringed on Apples design patents but won just $250 (not a typo) in damages. Sadly, Apple didnt win big enough to score an injunction preventing Masimo from selling its watches. That sound you cant hear right now is champagne corks not being popped in the hallowed halls of Apple Park. Continue Reading.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/general/the-morning-after-engadget-newsletter-111516206.html?src=rss
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In an AMA this weekend, Instagram head Adam Mosseri shared some insight into why some videos on the platform appear reduced in quality well after theyre posted, and it all boils down to performance. Responding to a question about old stories looking blurry in highlights, Mosseri said, In general, we want to show the highest-quality video we can. But if something isnt watched for a long time because the vast majority of views are in the beginning we will move to a lower quality video. If the video later spikes in popularity again, then we will re-render the higher quality video, he said in the response, which was reposted by a Threads user (spotted by The Verge). Further elaborating in a follow-up reply, though, Mosseri added, We bias to higher quality (more CPU intensive encoding and more expensive storage for bigger files) for creators who drive more views. The comment has sparked concern from small creators in the replies who say it puts them at a disadvantage competing with others who have larger platforms. Meta has previously said it uses different encoding configurations to process videos based on their popularity as part of how it manages its computing resources. The performance system works at an aggregate level, Mosseri said, not an individual viewer level Its not a binary theshhold [sic], but rather a sliding scale. In response to one user who questioned its fairness for smaller creators, Mosseri said the quality shift doesnt seem to matter much in practice as it isnt huge and viewers appear to care more about video content over quality. Quality seems to be much more important to the original creator, who is more likely to delete the video if it looks poor, than to their viewers, he said. Understandably, not everyone seems convinced.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/mosseri-confirms-instagram-reduces-video-quality-for-posts-that-arent-raking-in-views-233033536.html?src=rss
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