AI and Wikipedia Have Sent Vulnerable Languages Into a Doom Spiral
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The article discusses how AI and Wikipedia may be contributing to the decline of vulnerable languages, sparking concerns about language preservation and the impact of technology on cultural heritage.
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leakycap
3 months ago
AI has been trained on lots of sloppy machine translations, and now outputs mangled translations and content when prompted in those languages
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