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Hospitals use a transcription tool powered by a hallucination-prone OpenAI model

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Summary
Nutrition label

80% Informative

Whisper is used by a company called Nabla for a medical transcription tool that's used by 30,000 clinicians and 40 health systems.

Researchers found Whisper hallucinated in about 1 percent of transcriptions, making up sentences with sometimes violent sentiments or nonsensical phrases during silences in recordings.

VR Score

77

Informative language

73

Neutral language

73

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

64

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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