Instagram apologizes for inserting 'terrorist' into Palestinian bio translations

Post by f233f2 » Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 6:42 PM UTC

elil17 wrote: post #21

f233f2 wrote: post #14

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

I think the average person doesn't understand at all what level of accuracy they can expect from AI tools. That is why you have professors relying on ChatGPT to tell them if a student cheated using ChatGPT. HN readers already know not to trust it of course.

Post by mcguire » Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 6:50 PM UTC

nerdponx wrote: post #11

permo-w wrote: post #4

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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?

Post by pjerem » Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 6:56 PM UTC

f233f2 wrote: post #22

elil17 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the average person doesn't understand at all what level of accuracy they can expect from AI tools. That is why you have professors relying on ChatGPT to tell them if a student cheated using ChatGPT. HN readers already know not to trust it of course.

I agree that the average person doesn't generally know how technology works. I think the solution is not to limit the use of technology but to restrict the exposure of the average person to technology until they can prove that they know how it works (some sort of internet license, if you will)

Post by giraffe_lady » Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 6:59 PM UTC

nerdponx wrote: post #11

permo-w wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Post by giraffe_lady » Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 7:05 PM UTC

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