dustbunnies [she/her, comrade/them]

sometimes they go into a tiny little office so they can concentrate better, and it’s so much easier to hear those docs

his evil smirk reminds me of Weyoun from DS9

as much as the speech-to-text gets wrong on my phone, I can only imagine what it does with doctors’ notes.

one of my million previous jobs was in medical transcription, and it is so easy to misunderstand things even when you have a good grasp of specialty-specific terminology and basic anatomy.

they enunciate the shit they’re recording about your case about as well as they legibly write. you really have to get a feel for a doctor’s speaking style and common phrases to not turn in a bunch of errors.

But Whisper has a major flaw: It is prone to making up chunks of text or even entire sentences, according to interviews with more than a dozen software engineers, developers and academic researchers. Those experts said some of the invented text — known in the industry as hallucinations — can include racial commentary, violent rhetoric and even imagined medical treatments.

Edit: oh yeah, ✨ innovation ✨

While most developers assume that transcription tools misspell words or make other errors, engineers and researchers said they had never seen another AI-powered transcription tool hallucinate as much as Whisper.

Edit 2: it gets better and better

In an example they uncovered, a speaker said, “He, the boy, was going to, I’m not sure exactly, take the umbrella.”

But the transcription software added: “He took a big piece of a cross, a teeny, small piece … I’m sure he didn’t have a terror knife so he killed a number of people.”

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.”

Edit 3: wonder if the Organ Procurement Organizations are going to try to use this to blame for the extremely fucked up shit that’s been happening

where’s the lie

It’s much easier to lean to republicans and middle of the road voters because you wouldn’t have to offer much

our politics run on money in the US, and this is where the money is: “Nothing Will Fundamentally Change.”

hilarious bit, we should all do this

who’s got the Juggalo Kamala 'shop

can’t imagine who is genuinely undecided at this point – like, at best, I can see somebody being like, “meh 🤷” but I can’t see anyone who actually would be surprised and/or have their opinion swayed by more evidence of Trump being a predator and a crook or, conversely, Kamala being a cop and not giving a single shit

they’re both awful, which everyone with a heart can see.

“no fucks to give, who cares? 🤷” makes sense to me, but “not sure which is better 🤷” seems so fucking nonsensical. I don’t watch tv or do other social media, though, and I’m autistic, so I’m probably wildly out of touch with the neurotypical mainstream. but wow, the idea that there are actual undecideds out there boggles me, but apparently there are enough for Dem strategists to think that more grope evidence will matter.

just honking into the void, hoping for an echo

all the people who are gifted housing by their rich relatives are fucking up the averages

you know what brings people to the negotiating table??

murdering all the previous negotiatiors

being forced to be nonconsensually vegan by PTSD is literally the very least of what that fucker deserves