AI tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said.

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.

some of the invented text — known in the industry as hallucinations — can include racial commentary, violent rhetoric and even imagined medical treatments.

Whisper is being used in a slew of industries worldwide.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10832303/ai-transcription-medical-errors/