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Whisper Hallucinates on Silence: 187 Phantom Transcripts in a Week

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The report said the candidate paused mid-answer about database sharding and then said, clearly, "Thanks for watching!" They didn't. They were thinking. Nobody was talking for about six seconds, and Whisper filled that silence with a YouTube outro. Then my LLM interviewer read the transcript and rep…

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  1. 2026-09-23 05:21 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Whisper Hallucinates on Silence: 187 Phantom Transcripts in a Week

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