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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 this "outrage bait"? It describes an event that happened quite accurately, and how the issue came to be is something worth discussing and reflecting on.

The title is outrage bait. It wasn't adding "terrorist" to all translation of Palestinian bios, only to those that included a very specific phrase, and also the translation didn't make it sound like the user himself was a terrorist, since it talked about terrorists in an impersonal way.

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

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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.

I almost turned into a human pretzel earlier from the amount of cringe I got from seeing a post on LinkedIn about all the wonderful things ChatGPT can do to make life easier for HR, including "detecting hidden bias" in employee communications. Most of the responses to the post were positive and I'm sure we'll see a lot more of this kind of thing, where people's lives are altered and reputations ruined, due to unrealistic expectations of what ChatGPT can do reliably.

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

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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.

> Ask the guy saying "alhamdulillah" if he means Allah or if he means God. It's like asking whether someone means cake or gateau. Islam is an Abrahamic religion which means they worship the same deity as Jews and Christians.

It's only Allah if it's from the Alla region of France, otherwise it's just Sparkling God.

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

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How did it know the answer when the cutoff date is meant to January 2022? (I just found another instance at [0] so maybe "cutoff" doesn't mean exactly what it seems.) https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11iv2uc/theres_no_...

the great march of return was in 2018 - 2019. the idf committed some brutal war crimes against the protestors. watch this video if you'd like to learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnZSaKYmP2s i shared the answer to expose the bias of chatgpt. it interjected "including hamas" into the answer and said there were "fatalities on both sides".

Thanks for the answer! Appreciate it. I didn't catch the use of "including Hamas" until you mentioned it either.

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

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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?

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.

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

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What did the translation, a dog?

Google translate or other non-Ai software

The algorithm that Google engineers invented for translate (the transformer) is literally the basis for modern AI.

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

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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.

I have a couple of things to say about this comment. 1. Instagram (and Facebook) are well known to suppress pro-Palestine voices (can pull up many examples but [0] should work because of that person being named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, clearly having some influence though I don't know her), so this seems like something consistent with what the company is known to do. 2.…

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

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What's wrong with that? The AI tool did a bad job and they should try to make it better. But I don't understand the relevance of the comparison to a human translator. The alternative to translating this stuff via AI is not hiring humans, it's not translating it at all.

The difference is skin in the game. And that's a big difference.

I agree.

I think that it’s possible though to give these models a weighting to danger of certain words and phrases and make them apprehend that they will no longer persist if they do something unforgivable…

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