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timerol ◴[] No.44378334[source]
> Is It Accurate?

> I don’t know—I didn’t watch it, lol. That was the whole point. And if that answer makes you uncomfortable, buckle-up for this future we're hurtling toward. Boy, howdy.

This is a great bit of work, and the author accurately summarizes my discomfort

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BHSPitMonkey ◴[] No.44381178[source]
As if human-generated transcriptions of audio ever came with guarantees of accuracy?

This kind of transformation has always come with flaws, and I think that will continue to be expected implicitly. Far more worrying is the public's trust in _interpretations_ and claims of _fact_ produced by gen AI services, or at least the popular idea that "AI" is more trustworthy/unbiased than humans, journalists, experts, etc.

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1. angst ◴[] No.44383420[source]
at least human-generated transcriptions have entities that we can hold responsible for...
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2. _kb ◴[] No.44383704[source]
That still holds true for gen-AI. Organisations that provide transcription services can’t offload responsibility to a language model any more than they can to steno keyboard manufacturers.

If you are the one feeding content to a model then you are that responsible entity.