Introducing Aya: An Open Science Initiative to Accelerate Multilingual AI Progress

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Multilingual AI is a vey real issue, with literal lives on the line. Mostly because Facebook wants to use AI to moderate hate speech instead of using actual human beings (although that has problems, too). Ignoring content moderation on social media in non-English countries goes much worse than you'd imagine.

Lots of ways to contribute, from the Aya site:

Screenshot of what you can do with Aya