Whisper transcription included a random watermark

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Weird whisper transcription links to FEMA.gov

Someone else on Reddit yesterday got a similar oddball at the end of their whisper when talking to ChatGPT, something like “this transcription service provided by xxxx company”. I suspect if you train an AI on labeled audio data, and there is enough reinforcement that after transcripts seem finished, metadata is also included and rewarded, you get that metadata showing who’s efforts you stole.

'Transcription Outsourcing, LLC' repeated throughout whisper transcript

Unsanitized data being used as the reward-training of audio-to-text modalities results in activation of that training inference on similar inputs. The highest occurrence of replaying such ancillary metadata would be from under 30-second clips that appear to wrap up, reaching a conclusion, and mirror the types of data that Ditto Transcripts would perform on public data that could be scraped by an AI company thirsty for labeled audio data, such as government works for the hearing-impaired.