Automated translation is hopelessly sexist, but don’t blame the algorithm or the training data
▻https://algorithmwatch.org/en/automated-translation-sexist
Automated translation services tend to erase women or reduce them to stereotypes. Simply tweaking the training data or the models is not enough to make translations fair. Ever since Google Translate launched in the late 2000s, users noticed that it got gender wrong. In the early 2010s, some Twitter users expressed outrage that the phrase “men should clean the kitchen” was translated to “Frauen sollten die Küche sauber” in German, which means “women should cleanly (sic) the kitchen”. Ten years (...)
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