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Scribe AI on My Heritage
Just tried out Scribe AI on the My Heritage site, after seeing the news in BFHS news. Tried it with a will of 1816, that I had largely already transcribed myself. Found it severely lacking - in integoryt, in content and in signalling the limitations of what it could decipher. The 'full text' transcription was anything but - great chunks of text simply missing - with no indication that this was the case. Names had been misread - OK understandable - but then an assumption made about a family relationship between two unrelated people, because it was using the erroneous transcribed name. Again - no indication anywhere of the uncertainties in the transcription.
In fact it performed no better - in some ways worse - than a previous attempt I had made using ChatGBT, as a general tool. And it was annoying that I had to take out a trial subscription to My Heritage, before I could even sample the Scribe AI tool. Since cancelled.
Advice to anyone else - treat with Extreme Caution...!
Peggy Jackson
Hi Peggy
I haven't tried Scribe so I'm not in a position to comment. But a while ago, I came across a specific ChatGPT devoted to historical transcription and the results I got with it were pretty good. You can find it here. Give it a try to see if it's any better.
I also have access to other AI tools. If you would like to post the document here, I could see if I can find one that does better?
Paul Barrett
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