Looks great!
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:
This helped me get third place in trivia this weekend. Everyone else guessed Jimmy Kimmel, for some reason?
If you want to find out whether you're a hapless victim, visit WaPo's Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart. I'm apparently the source of about 0.0000313% of the tokens! Where's my check?
I love how absolutely bland the results are:
LLMs aren't perfect, but they're pretty good. Fine-tuned traditional models are also pretty good. Be careful when you're putting your data and prompts together. b Life is like that sometimes.
Rest of World has been doing some great work on AI lately. This is an especially excellent piece because it isn't about the traditional "here are the people doing the behind the scenes work" that's been so common when talking about not-America – instead, it's about the people who have been displaced by or are using AI in places like Mexico and Lagos.
Really really good read. Shows the difference between human- and AI-generated work, how the tools are used, all the details you could want. I don't know if it really deserves the #dystopia tag, but business is business.
Know this one got me an early lead in trivia the other day.
