Rant: That $40 AI transcription tool mangled my crew's safety logs

I paid 40 bucks for one of those AI voice-to-text services to turn my morning safety briefings into written records. Third day in, it heard 'chainsaw' as 'chain saw' fine, but then turned 'felling the oak' into 'feeling the oak' and 'rigging line' into 'rigging sign'. Now my insurance guy is asking why my logs mention a tree that felt something, and I spent two hours correcting 15 pages of nonsense. Has anyone else had an AI tool that sounded good on paper but made your field notes worse than just typing them out slow?

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iris_davis901mo ago

The 'feeling the oak' thing got me. That's not just a typo, that's the tool picking the WRONG meaning of a word it heard perfectly fine. Nobody talks about how these things mess up SAFETY records specifically, because a guess that sounds nice in a normal sentence can be a huge deal in a log. Like, 'rigging sign' vs 'rigging line' could mean someone's doing a completely different job that day. Your insurance guy is annoyed now, but wait until someone actually gets hurt and the records don't match what everyone remembers saying. That's when the real trouble starts.

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