Instagram apologizes for inserting 'terrorist' into Palestinian bio translations
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Re: Instagram apologizes for inserting 'terrorist' into Palestinian bio translations
#2They forgot the /s after "sincerely".
Re: Instagram apologizes for inserting 'terrorist' into Palestinian bio translations
#3This is the sort of thing that could cause people to lose friends or jobs. This is exactly the sort of thing we should be worried about with AI. I feel like machine translations like those on Instagram should come with a disclaimer (in bold, not fine print!).
Re: Instagram apologizes for inserting 'terrorist' into Palestinian bio translations
#4This is the sort of thing that could cause people to lose friends or jobs. This is exactly the sort of thing we should be worried about with AI. I feel like machine translations like those on Instagram should come with a disclaimer (in bold, not fine print!).
this could easily have happened with non-AI translations
Re: Instagram apologizes for inserting 'terrorist' into Palestinian bio translations
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Re: Instagram apologizes for inserting 'terrorist' into Palestinian bio translations
#6more outrage bait from 404media....
It's bad sure, but this has been possible/happening with user-sourced translation 'correction' systems for years like in Google Translate. Anyone could have influenced the translation to include those phrases. And similar effects have been absorbed into automated engines
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You're being downvoted but you might be right. This is a classic case of your model only being as good as your training data, and of that being really really hard to get right unless you're intimately familiar with the data, its context in the world, and how it was collected/cleaned/processed.
Re: Instagram apologizes for inserting 'terrorist' into Palestinian bio translations
#8This is the sort of thing that could cause people to lose friends or jobs. This is exactly the sort of thing we should be worried about with AI. I feel like machine translations like those on Instagram should come with a disclaimer (in bold, not fine print!).
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Re: Instagram apologizes for inserting 'terrorist' into Palestinian bio translations
#9more outrage bait from 404media.... It's bad sure, but this has been possible/happening with user-sourced translation 'correction' systems for years like in Google Translate. Anyone could have influenced the translation to include those phrases. And similar effects have been absorbed into automated engines
Yeah, when they first launched I was excited to subscribe because I thought paying for tech journalism instead of it being ad-driven would eliminate the clickbait and sensationalism. I unsubscribed after receiving a month of absolute drivel and headlines full of half-truths.
Re: Instagram apologizes for inserting 'terrorist' into Palestinian bio translations
#10more outrage bait from 404media.... It's bad sure, but this has been possible/happening with user-sourced translation 'correction' systems for years like in Google Translate. Anyone could have influenced the translation to include those phrases. And similar effects have been absorbed into automated engines
That's the whole point of why it's bad. AI isn't HAL or Skynet. It's not "intelligent". It's susceptible to a whole range of problems, and this is a demonstration of what can go wrong even when you have a huge well-funded company working on it.