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AI speech-to-text can hallucinate violent language
June 11, 2024
ITHACA, New York, June 11 -- Cornell University issued the following news:

Speak a little too haltingly and with long pauses, and OpenAI's speech-to-text transcriber might put harmful, violent words in your mouth, Cornell researchers have discovered.

OpenAI's Whisper - an artificial intelligence-powered speech recognition system - occasionally makes up or "hallucinates" entire phrases and sentences, sometimes conjuring up violent language, invented . . .

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