The Forgotten Languages: Why Your Model Speaks English, Chinese, and Spanish—But Not Tamil or Swahili
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You ask an AI a question in English. It answers fluently. You ask in Spanish. It answers well. You ask in Tamil. It stumbles. You ask in Swahili. It gives a generic, awkward response. You are not surprised. You expect the AI to be better at English. But you should be surprised. Tamil has 80 million speakers. Swahili has 200 million speakers. They are not obscure languages. They are just underrepresented in the training data. This is the linguistic justice crisis. The AI does not speak all…
1Key Takeaways
- You ask an AI a question in English.
- It gives a generic, awkward response.
- You expect the AI to be better at English.
- They are just underrepresented in the training data.
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