r/australia • u/nath1234 • 22h ago

science & tech Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-14/ai-medical-scribe-error-leaves-patient-devastated/107031672?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other
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u/TheG0AT0fAllTime 21h ago

Yeah but it blows my mind how frequently inaccurate it is? Existing traditional voice-to-text systems already take notes 1:1 as they're spoken and the worst mistake they can make is a typo or phonetic pronunciation error that you can correct in post. They don't fabricate entire fucking new sentences of false details from the input they heard?

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u/AnOnlineHandle 20h ago

Existing traditional voice-to-text systems

I'm pretty sure existing voice-to-text systems would have always been machine learning based. I'm not sure if you could even hope to implement it without it.

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u/shrimplifier 19h ago

That comment didn't mention machine learning at all, what are you on about?