<![CDATA[generative so-called "AI" is now being used to transcribe and translate Latin manuscripts.]]>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

https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:vpepa7tkir7iaia3risvyjc6/post/3mhoqx2xugk24

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/eb6a5d35-9501-453b-933f-6890401c2d5e/generative-so-called-ai-is-now-being-used-to-transcribe-and-translate-latin-manuscripts.RSS for NodeSat, 11 Apr 2026 11:26:38 GMTMon, 23 Mar 2026 11:11:20 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to generative so-called "AI" is now being used to transcribe and translate Latin manuscripts. on Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:36:30 GMT]]>@elilla I am continuously arguing the accuracy debt angle. I have made significant strides in some areas of building ai 'bulkheads'.

Low background radiation steel is a good analogy I use. There is before, and there is after.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/SecurityWriter/statuses/116278518777102580https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/SecurityWriter/statuses/116278518777102580Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:36:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to generative so-called "AI" is now being used to transcribe and translate Latin manuscripts. on Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:24:16 GMT]]>@elilla 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 back saying it was fine and users could submit corrections. I decided to check whether my hypothesis was correct and mistranscriptions were common. I followed an upthread link to a transcription and started reading through to see how long it would take me to spot an error. Literally the next speaker had serious errors in the transcription.

The kicker: NYC already provides human-taken transcriptions. But these are released "too slowly" and it's "too hard" to even implement a feature to automatically check the machine transcriptions against the human ones when they're available.

The second kicker: in the video with the error, the human scribe interrupted to ask the speaker to speak louder/more clearly so that they could get an accurate transcript.

Anyways I got blocked because the project (which aside from using AI for transcription was pretty cool) was super useful for civic engagement and my objections were intolerable.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/tiotasram/statuses/116278470673273610https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/tiotasram/statuses/116278470673273610Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:24:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to generative so-called "AI" is now being used to transcribe and translate Latin manuscripts. on Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:45:41 GMT]]>@elilla A BANGER POST

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://gts.cairobraga.com/users/cairobraga/statuses/01KMD87PK2TR2BKMY2GAV3HP4Zhttps://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://gts.cairobraga.com/users/cairobraga/statuses/01KMD87PK2TR2BKMY2GAV3HP4ZMon, 23 Mar 2026 11:45:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to generative so-called "AI" is now being used to transcribe and translate Latin manuscripts. on Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:42:12 GMT]]>@elilla "signal-shaped noise" is a very apt description. Thank you.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/laprice/statuses/116278305266495294https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/laprice/statuses/116278305266495294Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:42:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to generative so-called "AI" is now being used to transcribe and translate Latin manuscripts. on Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:40:59 GMT]]>@elilla 🏆

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/Gustodon/statuses/116278300496731378https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/Gustodon/statuses/116278300496731378Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:40:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to generative so-called "AI" is now being used to transcribe and translate Latin manuscripts. on Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:32:25 GMT]]>"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.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://transmom.love/users/elilla/statuses/116278266819547587https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://transmom.love/users/elilla/statuses/116278266819547587Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:32:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to generative so-called "AI" is now being used to transcribe and translate Latin manuscripts. on Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:12:59 GMT]]>@elilla (I'd say: derivative* so-called """AI"""; as it actually generates nothing at all)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://gts.cairobraga.com/users/cairobraga/statuses/01KMD6BSY6NFPTQ4HC1TXN5JN6https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://gts.cairobraga.com/users/cairobraga/statuses/01KMD6BSY6NFPTQ4HC1TXN5JN6Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:12:59 GMT