The AI Revolution Is Crushing Thousands of Languages

emmjay · Apr 13, 2024

The rise of the internet, alongside decades of American hegemony, made English into a common tongue for business, politics, science, and entertainment. More than half of all websites are in English, yet more than 80 percent of people in the world don’t speak the language... and now the generative-AI boom, despite promises to bridge languages and cultures, may only further entrench the dominance of English in life on and off the web.

Some 7,000 languages are spoken in the world. Google Translate supports 133 of them. Chatbots from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are still more constrained. If generative AI indeed becomes the portal through which the internet is accessed, then billions of people may in fact be worse off than they are today...the trouble is that, while developing tools for these languages is slow going, generative AI is rapidly overtaking the web. Synthetic content is flooding search engines and social media like a kind of gray goo, all in hopes of making a quick buck.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/04/generative-ai-low-resource-languages/678042/

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