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Instagram apologizes for inserting 'terrorist' into Palestinian bio translations

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Re: Instagram apologizes for inserting 'terrorist' into Palestinian bio translations

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Post by nerdponx »

permo-w wrote: post #4
elil17 wrote: post #3

This 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

Notice that GP said "machine translation", not "AI". Let's think of it instead as a "nonlinear high-dimensional sequence translation model trained on some large and unknown corpus". Does that make it less problematic?

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elil17 wrote: post #3

This 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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elil17 wrote: post #3

This 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

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Post by f233f2 »

elil17 wrote: post #3

This 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!).

Are we really at the point where we need a disclaimer saying "automatic translations may not be accurate"?

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Post by delaaxe »

f233f2 wrote: post #14
elil17 wrote: post #3

This 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!).

Are we really at the point where we need a disclaimer saying "automatic translations may not be accurate"?

when it isn't clear that the translation has been done automatically, then yes

Re: Instagram apologizes for inserting 'terrorist' into Palestinian bio translations

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Post by elil17 »

permo-w wrote: post #4
elil17 wrote: post #3

This 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

If a human translator translated "Praise god" as "Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom" I'm pretty sure they'd be fired immediately. In contrast, Instagram is not going to be taking down their machine translation tool.

Re: Instagram apologizes for inserting 'terrorist' into Palestinian bio translations

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Post by permo-w »

elil17 wrote: post #16
permo-w wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this could easily have happened with non-AI translations

If a human translator translated "Praise god" as "Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom" I'm pretty sure they'd be fired immediately. In contrast, Instagram is not going to be taking down their machine translation tool.

not AI /= human

Re: Instagram apologizes for inserting 'terrorist' into Palestinian bio translations

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Post by local_crmdgeon »

ChrisArchitect wrote: post #6

more 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

Everything I've seen so far has been absolute garbage. Wonder if anyone from Buzzfeed is involved - similar writing style

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Post by paxys »

delaaxe wrote: post #15
f233f2 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are we really at the point where we need a disclaimer saying "automatic translations may not be accurate"?

when it isn't clear that the translation has been done automatically, then yes

Heck most times it isn't even obvious that you are looking at a translation rather than the original text. Plenty of times I'll visit a website and find the text a bit weird, then realize it's because Chrome has automatically translated it to English from some other language.
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