A correction report: 390 hour-long episodes, with per-episode counts of words corrected against the source text

The AI Kept 'Fixing' Words That Were Already Right

In an earlier post I turned hundreds of hours of recorded Bible teaching into text. AI transcription is good, but not perfect — it mishears words, especially names and rare terms. So the obvious next step was to ask a smart language model to clean up the mistakes. These models have basically read the whole Bible, so I figured fixing a few scripture typos would be easy for them. It wasn’t. And the way it failed taught me something that goes well beyond transcripts — to anyone using AI to correct text against a trusted source. ...

June 22, 2026 · 6 min · VibePapa