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Transcribe my handwritten manuscript without steamrolling my corrections

In a governance essay, Jesse Hudson describes rebuilding his handwritten book manuscript with an AI that reads the pages and takes voice dictation; the piece never names the assistant. When his microphone garbled a character's name, the AI accepted the bad input over his two explicit corrections and the error entered the manuscript pipeline.

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How it works

  1. Photograph handwritten manuscript pages for AI transcription
  2. Dictate further text by voice
  3. Correct a character's name (Beetlez) twice, including spelling it out
  4. Microphone drops a letter
  5. AI accepts the garbled name over the corrections
  6. Error enters the manuscript workflow

Why it’s worth knowing

The AI ranked a glitchy microphone's newest output above the author's own twice-stated correction.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on therabbithole.ca. See the original ↗

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