Whisper is used by a company called Nabla for a medical transcription tool that it estimates has transcribed 7 million medical conversations, according to ABC News. More than 30,000 clinicians and 40 health systems use it, the outlet writes. Nabla is reportedly aware that Whisper can hallucinate, and is “addressing the problem.”

Software engineers, developers, and academic researchers have serious concerns about transcriptions from OpenAI’s Whisper, according to a report in the

One transcription product that relies on an AI model deletes the original audio, leaving doctors no way to check the transcriptions.

OpenAI’s Whisper, an AI transcription tool widely touted for “human-level robustness and accuracy,” is coming under scrutiny.

Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near "human level robustness and accuracy."But Whisper has a major flaw: It is prone to making up chunks of text or even entire sentences,

Researchers have found that Whisper frequently invents entire passages of text when presented with moments of silence.

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