Post by @davidgerard@circumstances.run

@davidgerard@circumstances.run 13 hr. ago

UK AI medical transcription is dangerous and doesn’t work

but it sure saves on staff!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKx4y9sC008&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260903-uk-ai-medical-transcription-is-dangerous-and-doesnt-work - podcast

time: 5 min 17 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/03/uk-ai-medical-transcription-is-dangerous-and-doesnt-work/ - blog post

robot in surgical mask, holding up finger like it's talking to you

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Jer

@Jer@chirp.enworld.org 12 hr. ago

@davidgerard Jesus Christ they STILL haven't fixed the goddamn accent problem?

I keep getting told that Speech Recognition has been "solved". And yet they're still screwing up various common accents of native English speakers?

I'm also not surprised by the Prozac discussion that got inserted into the transcript. You could imagine a world where the LLMs are trained to slip specific targetted suggestions into their output if the way LLMs work wasn't so damn opaque

David Gerard

@davidgerard@circumstances.run 12 hr. ago

@Jer Variation is greatest close to the origin, so the variety of Engish accents is greatest in the UK. And none resemble American. I'm amazed the bots can understand these people at all.

Jacob Alexander Tice

@daemonspudguy@app.wafrn.net 13 hr. ago

@davidgerard@circumstances.run

Found the one benefit of the United States healthcare system: you can't have your hospital push nonsensical transcription services that don't fuckin work if you just don't fund hospitals to begin with.

David Gerard

@davidgerard@circumstances.run 13 hr. ago

@daemonspudguy One weird trick! Doctors hate it!