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Whisper

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17 articles stable

Whisper has appeared in 17 articles since 2015-03. Coverage peaked in 2024Q2 with 3 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside YouTube, Meta, Google, GPT-OSS.

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17
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Acceleration
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Sources
12
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Coverage Timeline

2024-10-27
Associated Press 10 related

Engineers, developers, and researchers say OpenAI's transcription tool Whisper hallucinates chunks of text or even entire sentences, including racial commentary

Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.”

2024-10-26
Associated Press 2 related

Engineers, developers, and researchers say OpenAI's transcription tool Whisper hallucinates chunks of text or even entire sentences, including racial commentary

Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.” Mastodon: @mhoye@mastodon.social , @jonny@neuromatc...

2024-04-07
New York Times 27 related

Sources: OpenAI transcribed 1M+ hours of YouTube videos through Whisper and used the text to train GPT-4; Google also transcribed YouTube videos to harvest text

OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law …

2024-04-06
New York Times 14 related

Sources: OpenAI transcribed 1M+ hours of YouTube videos through Whisper and used the text to train GPT-4; Google also transcribed YouTube videos to harvest text

OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law …

2024-04-05
Bloomberg 15 related

YouTube's CEO says that OpenAI training Sora with YouTube videos would violate YouTube's ToS, and Google adheres to YouTube's creator contracts to train Gemini

depending on how it trains its Sora video tool Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : YouTube CEO's warning to OpenAI over Sora training data could backfire spectacularly Cecily Mauran / Mashable : OpenAI's...

2020-03-11
Washington Post 9 related

Researchers find anonymous social media app Whisper left hundreds of millions of intimate user messages, tied to personal details like location, exposed online

Drew Harwell / Washington Post :

2015-03-12
Wall Street Journal 9 related

Guardian corrects, clarifies articles on Whisper app privacy, takes down commentary post

Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal :

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Quarterly Coverage

Top Sources

Narrative

TEXXR tracks 34 Techmeme articles mentioning Whisper, dating back to March 2015. The biggest stories include OpenAI launches a free ChatGPT app for iOS in the US, offering the web version's features... and Skype partners with Open Whisper Systems, which makes Signal, to begin testing of.... Frequently covered alongside Signal, Open Whisper Systems, Android, Meta, and Whisper Systems.

Key Moments

2024Q4enterprise -100pts; developer +100pts; research +100pts
2025Q2consumer +100pts; research -100pts
2025Q4developer -100pts; consumer -100pts; research +100pts

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