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elilla&, the flute futa · 7w
generative so-called "AI" is now being used to transcribe and translate Latin manuscripts. guess the results: https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:vpepa7tkir7iaia3risvyjc6/post/3mhntbkyadc24 h...
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"AI" users are like, "I know this is imprecise but as a convenience these transcriptions are better than nothing"

then 70 years from now we'll still be struggling to debunk these entirely hallucinated transcriptions of thousands of manuscripts that were pissed into the pool of human knowledge.

some things are worse than nothing. "signal-shaped noise" is worse than nothing.
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Tiota Sram · 7w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqs8v9ng7mg5vlqtvn44vy4aksdhqq9d36ec0esgj2365jl09ejgxqxpdz7t I saw a project doing this for NYC council meetings, and brought up the inevitability of mistranscriptions (and bias in whose testimony would be more accurately transcribed). They pushed...
Cassandrich · 7w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqs8v9ng7mg5vlqtvn44vy4aksdhqq9d36ec0esgj2365jl09ejgxqxpdz7t "Signal-shaped noise" is an utterly brilliant characterization of what "gen AI" produces.