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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
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 02:58
Lid 2007
English to Portuguese
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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
Thayenga
Rabie El Magdouli
Carmen Valentin-Rodriguez
Peter Simon
 
Thayenga
Thayenga  Identity Verified
Germany
Local time: 03:58
Lid 2009
English to German
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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
Rabie El Magdouli
Angie Garbarino
Carmen Valentin-Rodriguez
writeaway
Ines Radionovas-Lagoutte, PhD
Peter Simon
 
Hipyan Nopri
Hipyan Nopri  Identity Verified
Indonesia
Local time: 08:58
English to Indonesian
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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.
 
Ricardo Aries
Ricardo Aries  Identity Verified
Indonesia
Local time: 08:58
Lid 2020
English to Indonesian
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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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