Poll: How do you feel about tech companies using public minority language content to train AI?
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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N/A Oct 7

I wonder if translation these days is restricted to AI. Isn’t there anything else to talk about? Or is there a hidden reason behind this persistent repetition? To do away with the Quick Polls? Please don’t…

Maria Laura Curzi
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Rabie El Magdouli
Carmen Valentin-Rodriguez
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AI Oct 7

AI from here to eternity.
If AI becomes the sole subject of the polls, then I might as well copy my comments and just paste them into the next poll. How boring.


Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Angie Garbarino
Carmen Valentin-Rodriguez
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Ines Radionovas-Lagoutte, PhD
Peter Simon
 
Hipyan Nopri
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Native speakers and translators should be consulted Oct 7

I chose the second option.

Indonesia has hundreds of regional languages, many with very little written material online.

I believe native speakers and translators, as the people who know these languages best, should be consulted on how their languages are used and fairly recognized for their contribution.

Without their involvement, there is a real risk that limited or inaccurate content will be treated as authentic usage.


 
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An Indonesian view: regional languages need consent 01:40

From an Indonesian perspective this hits close to home. Bahasa Indonesia itself is well resourced, but Javanese, Sundanese, Buginese and hundreds of other regional languages are not, and much of their online content comes from small community sites, local news and religious texts. Using it to train AI without consent or credit takes from communities that already have the least. Done with them, though, the same tools could help keep these languages alive. Consent, attribution and native-speaker r... See more
From an Indonesian perspective this hits close to home. Bahasa Indonesia itself is well resourced, but Javanese, Sundanese, Buginese and hundreds of other regional languages are not, and much of their online content comes from small community sites, local news and religious texts. Using it to train AI without consent or credit takes from communities that already have the least. Done with them, though, the same tools could help keep these languages alive. Consent, attribution and native-speaker review should be the minimum. ▲ Collapse


 
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If it's any consolation to you 01:58

Hipyan Nopri wrote:

I chose the second option.

Indonesia has hundreds of regional languages, many with very little written material online.

I believe native speakers and translators, as the people who know these languages best, should be consulted on how their languages are used and fairly recognized for their contribution.

Without their involvement, there is a real risk that limited or inaccurate content will be treated as authentic usage.


In principle, one can only agree with you.

But given that the tech bros have form when it comes to not paying any blind of notice to what others have to say ...

If it's any consolation to you even for 'major languages' the nauseously bland and oververbose AI output is hardly 'autentic usage' either.


 


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