Big Tech's Universal AI Models Are Killing African Language Startups, Say Distributed AI Researchers
Investors forced African language NLP startups to shut down after Meta announced its No Language Left Behind model covering 200 languages. Timnit Gebru and Abeba Birhane from Distributed AI Research say the 'AI for good' narrative obscures how universal models displace specialized organizations and exploit data while offering minimal compensation.
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