Instagram Egregiously Mistranslates Palestinian User Bios, Inserting Word “Terrorist”

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Oct 27 2023 | 00:03:04

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A bug in Instagram’s auto-translate feature is highlighting the problem of bias in multilingual language models (MLMs) and the need for more transparency from companies that employ them.

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