Comment by itissid
17 days ago
For an OCR company I imagine it is unconscionable to do this because if you would say OCR for an Oral History project for a library and you made hallucination errors, well you've replaced facts with fiction. Rewriting history? What the actual F.
Probaly totally fine for a "fintech" (Crypto?) though. Most of them are just burning VC money anyway. Maybe a lucky customer gets a windfall because Gemini added some zeros.
I think you can just ask DeepSeek to create a coin for you at this point, and with the recent elimination of any oversight, you can automate your rug pulls...
Normal OCR (like Tesseract) can be wrong as well (and IMO this happens frequently). It won’t hallucinate/straight make shit up like an LLM, but a human needs to review OCR results if the workload requires accuracy. Even across multiple runs of the same image an OCR can give different results (in some scenarios). No OCR system is perfectly accurate, they all use some kind of machine learning/floating point/potentially nondeterministic tech.