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chobeat@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.ml · 12 hours ago

How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral

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How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral

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chobeat@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.ml · 12 hours ago
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Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?
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    8 hours ago

    Wait languages are vulnerable now?

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      Vulnerable to going extinct.

      If you read the article it briefly touches on how the “doom spiral” could affect the trajectory of a language that is not widely spoken. It’s not a great article though, it just repeats the same thing for several pages, points the finger at wikipedia instead of the content-generation farms and then fails to properly conclude the argument of their presumed hypothesis.

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      The languages that are vulnerable are vulnerable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_language

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