When A.I. Fails the Language Test, Who Is Left Out of the Conversation?
The use of artificial intelligence is exploding around the world, but the technology’s language models are primarily trained in English, leaving many speakers of other languages behind.
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Supo que era mujer a través de la escritura. Ahora también es famosa
La primera vez que Camila Sosa Villada adoptó una voz femenina fue en los cuentos que escribía en la infancia y mantenía en secreto. Ahora, sus libros están traducidos en más de 20 idiomas y adaptados al cine.
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Writing Helped Her Realize She Was a Woman. It Also Made Her Famous.
Camila Sosa Villada, an Argentine transgender author, first inhabited a female voice in stories she wrote as a child. Now her novels are translated in more than 20 languages and being adapted for the screen.
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Have a Foreign Language Love Affair This Summer
Have translation tools made learning a language pointless? Not a chance.
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Why Are Democrats Speaking to America in Ancient Greek?
Democracy is vital. “Democracy,” the word, is inert.
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The Tiniest Words Generate the Biggest Uproar
The outrage over new pronouns fundamentally misunderstands how language works.
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What Donald Trump Talks About When He Talks About ‘Donald Trump’
When the former president refers to himself, there’s something he’s not saying.
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Cormac McCarthy Did Not Talk Craft, Except With Roger Payne
Notoriously reluctant to give advice, the author offered his views, and meticulous edits, to a lifelong friend: Roger Payne, the marine biologist who introduced the world to whale song.
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Is Slop A.I.’s Answer to Spam? A Phrase Emerges for Bad Search.
A new term has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material.
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English-Language Books Are Filling Europe’s Bookstores. Mon Dieu!
Young people, especially, are choosing to read in English even if it is not their first language because they want the covers, and the titles, to match what they see on TikTok and other social media.
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I Reread a Book That Changed My Life, but I’d Changed, Too
At the very least, it’s a chance to remember who we were when we first experienced it.
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當美國電影電視裡的亞洲人開始說自己的語言
在今天的好萊塢,亞洲和亞裔美國人的敘事不僅比以往任何時候都更加重要,而且這種敘事也在通過巧妙地使用亞洲語言,以越來越動態的方式來進行講述。
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From ‘The Sympathizer’ to ‘Past Lives,’ American Audiences Warm to Subtitles
In Hollywood today, not only are Asian and Asian American narratives more prominent than ever, but they are also being told in increasingly dynamic ways through the artful use of Asian languages.
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How the Language of TV is Influencing How We See Ourselves
TikTok has spawned a curious new way of understanding ordinary life: villain arcs, main character energy and seasons.
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