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38percent
The study's thematic analysis found that 38 percent of Whisper's hallucinations included explicit harms such as perpetuating violence, making up inaccurate associations or implying false authority.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“38\% of hallucinations include explicit harms such as perpetuating violence, making up inaccurate associations, or implying false authority”
Careless Whisper: Speech-to-Text Hallucination Harms, Allison Koenecke et al., arXiv (ACM FAccT 2024), 2024, Abstract.
Open the original- What it measures
- The 38 percent is a share of the hallucinated content, not of all transcripts.
- What it does not show
- Same dataset limits as the 1 percent figure.
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