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by arnejenssen 326 days ago
Who is Nicolai Winther? https://medium.com/@lehandreassen/who-is-nicolai-winther-985...
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"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes" _in a microniche techno-linguistic community, at a time and choosing of the swirling AI clouds_
TL;DR: Whisper occasionally hallucinates and credits “Nicolai Winther” at the ends of Norwegian transcriptions during silent audio segments, likely because the real Nicolai Winther - a former YouTuber who created subtitles—appears frequently in its (likely YouTube‑based) training data. This highlights how limited Norwegian training (only ~266 hours) can cause the model to overfit on specific names and phrases when uncertain.