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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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How is that not AI?

That was kind of my point. I don't think we should be quick to distinguish between "AI" and other algorithms/techniques, because what makes something "AI" is more a matter of opinion and perspective than anything else.

Then you just missed that non-AI means human depending on context.

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

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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)

Maybe the solution here is just what the parent suggested a disclaimer - a small message saying this was translated by an Ai, may not be 100% accurate - just so people are aware. Not for liability but just to make people aware

Maybe we need to develop some iconography to annotate text and images that were produced/generated with AI/ML? Like we have U+2622 to indicate a radiation warning.

Similarly, U+2620 for poison, U+2623 for biological hazard, U+26A1 for electrical hazard or the generic U+26A0 for hazards.

(edited to replace characters with U+ notation)

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

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Any ideas what software they are using? Alhamdulillah is a very widely used expression. My guess is that they used an LLM, which translated it correctly but then decided to hallucinate more text. If so, that says that lot about their training text...

Imagine going through customs in a foreign country and they screen your social profiles with an LLM translation like that.

Hey if you're Arab or Palestenian you're likely to get scrutiny no matter what

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

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Imagine going through customs in a foreign country and they screen your social profiles with an LLM translation like that.

Imagine going through customs in a foreign country and they screen your social profiles

I'm fairly sure the US does this

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Imagine going through customs in a foreign country and they screen your social profiles with an LLM translation like that.

Imagine going through customs in a foreign country and they screen your social profiles

US customs had me give them the credentials for my facebook profile back in 2017, so it's not that uncommon.

Edit: I had mentioned twitter as well originally, but I think what happened was I told them my twitter password was in my password manager and offered to get it off my phone (in their possession at the time) but the guy said it wasn't necessary.

For context, I was a 22 year old student travelling from my home country in the caribbean to the US after summer break. Also for context, I'm brown and have a muslim name.

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

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Imagine going through customs in a foreign country and they screen your social profiles

US customs had me give them the credentials for my facebook profile back in 2017, so it's not that uncommon. Edit: I had mentioned twitter as well originally, but I think what happened was I told them my twitter password was in my password manager and offered to get it off my phone (in their possession at the time) but the guy said it wasn't necessary. For context, I was a 22 year old student travelling from my home…

How did they know you used those platforms?

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

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US customs had me give them the credentials for my facebook profile back in 2017, so it's not that uncommon. Edit: I had mentioned twitter as well originally, but I think what happened was I told them my twitter password was in my password manager and offered to get it off my phone (in their possession at the time) but the guy said it wasn't necessary. For context, I was a 22 year old student travelling from my home…

How did they know you used those platforms?

Palantir?

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

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On a tangent to the main point, I like the subtle acknowledgement of our new reality - or at least of the one of many sudden shifts in common software tooling: > Google Translate translates the phrase to “Praise be to God.” ChatGPT translates it to "Praise be to Allah" or "All praise is due to Allah." LLMs turned out to be pretty good at translating, and ChatGPT (especially GPT-4) went straight into competing toe-to-…

I like it when arabic phrases are changed to be more palatable to western know-nothings. Ask the guy saying "alhamdulillah" if he means Allah or if he means God.

"Allah" is simply the Arabic word for "God" with capital G. Arab Christians use "Allah" to refer to God as well, and you can find the same word in Arabic translations of the Bible.

Here is a page from the Arabic website for the Holy See (Vatican). Just go to this page and search for الله :

https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/ar/encyclicals/docu...

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