Apple's Dictation System Transcribes the Word 'Racist' as 'Trump'
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#3People resorting to protest via causing inconvenience.
Which is probably one of the more effective forms of protest anyways.
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#4I would immediately find other alternatives that have better accuracy
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#5Sounds like a bug where they got it the wrong way around
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#6This smells like an LLM trying to correct the output of a speech recognition system. I said the word “racist” repeatedly and got this unedited output. You could see it changing the text momentarily after the initial recognition result, and given the way Mamaroneck sounds nothing like either of the other words I’d bet this thing was trained on news stories:
“Racist, Trump, Mamaroneck racist Trump Mamaroneck, racist racist racist racist Trump Mamaroneck”
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#7People resorting to protest via causing inconvenience. Which is probably one of the more effective forms of protest anyways.
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#8Silly idiotic activism aside it's concerning that if someone working at Apple managed to slip in such a bold change into the OS then can a malicious group do the same?
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#9This smells like an LLM trying to correct the output of a speech recognition system. I said the word “racist” repeatedly and got this unedited output. You could see it changing the text momentarily after the initial recognition result, and given the way Mamaroneck sounds nothing like either of the other words I’d bet this thing was trained on news stories: “Racist, Trump, Mamaroneck racist Trump Mamaroneck, racist ra…
It happens during speech to text so its unlikely LLM is involved.
Re: Apple's Dictation System Transcribes the Word 'Racist' as 'Trump'
#10This smells like an LLM trying to correct the output of a speech recognition system. I said the word “racist” repeatedly and got this unedited output. You could see it changing the text momentarily after the initial recognition result, and given the way Mamaroneck sounds nothing like either of the other words I’d bet this thing was trained on news stories: “Racist, Trump, Mamaroneck racist Trump Mamaroneck, racist ra…
It happens during speech to text so its unlikely LLM is involved.
That’s what I was referring to in the first sentence: you can see the raw text from the speech system change afterwards. Normally that’s things like punctuation and ambiguous words like their/they’re. That secondary process felt like a system which operates on test tokens because “racist” and “Mamaroneck” don’t sound similar at all.