Instagram ‘Sincerely Apologizes’ For Inserting ‘Terrorist’ Into Palestinian Bio Translations
Instagram ‘Sincerely Apologizes’ For Inserting ‘Terrorist’ Into Palestinian Bio Translations
original page (paywalled): https://www.404media.co/instagram-palestinian-arabic-bio-translation/
Someone at Instagram had to do this deliberately. This isn’t a bug. Someone wrote code to express their rotten politics.
The good news is that the commit will be easy to identify and they’ll lose their job. The sad news is they’ll likely never be outed publicly for being a racist piece of shit.
It's straight up Islamophobic.
Eh, nope. Translations generally and always have been trained off of models. So it likely used articles and such describing palestinian terrorists.
That's an interesting possibility that I hadn't considered. Sorry for late, disconnected, reply. Been busy.