AI Models Falter Answering Election Questions in Spanish.

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• shyguyblue@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  AI Models Falter Answering Election Questions in Spanish.

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• eldavi@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  mistranslations into spanish seemed common everywhere i’ve lived in the last 5 decades; california, new york, new jersey, texas, chicago; and it doesn’t seem to matter that there are plenty of fluent & native spanish speakers in all of those places.

  i’m a software developer now and did IT for 15 years before that and it seemed clear to me that american-born native spanish speakers are rare in software engineering compared to IT. i think that this is the first time that my anecdotal evidence has been confirmed. (somehow foreign-born spanish speakers have even representation throughout this industry like most everyone else).

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  • QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This isn’t an article about mistranslations.

    This is an article focusing on how asking about US election questions in Spanish will give you answers that are for the wrong country, or just wrong in most cases when compared to asking the same question in English.

    One example is that, if someone in Puerto Rico were to ask ChatGPT 4/Claude/Gemini/Llama/Mixtral a US Election question, it would respond with information for Venezuela/Mexico/Spain instead.

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    • eldavi@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      i’m addressing the underlying issue behind llm’s and any other sort of ai; the software engineers who create and work on them come from a cultural paradigm that doesn’t include anything but a few languages and spanish isn’t one of them.

      that results in strange behaviors like the one the article mentions here. other examples like face recognition issues is another manifestation of that paradigm.

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• catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Word generator generates words according to its training data. In other breaking news, the Pope is still Catholic.

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