Can we start calling our own fuckups hallucinations and write off any sort of repercussions? “I’m sorry for not working for the past month, boss. I hallucinated that I was at work!”

In an example they uncovered, a speaker said, “He, the boy, was going to, I’m not sure exactly, take the umbrella.”

But the transcription software added: “He took a big piece of a cross, a teeny, small piece … I’m sure he didn’t have a terror knife so he killed a number of people.”

HUH??? What??? Huh???

The astounding thing about this is that transcription should be deterministic. There’s no room for creativity here. Transcription is not a job that requires imagination. The closest you get to that is filling in stammers and stuff, but even that should be deterministic.