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Gotta preserve these endangered languages by uploading numerous mistranslations of the Bible to YouTube. To preserve these cultures, you see.
I doubt these audiobooks are mistranslated in any meaningful way: these are actual native speakers making these audiobooks โ I say "small and endangered languages", but I should be clear to say that these are languages with tens of thousands or even 100K+ L1 speakers โ and they're apparently working off of old Bible translations from before the languages in question were endangered.
I'm assuming you're thinking of the absolute scourge of AI slop Indigenous language dictionaries and learning materials that are genuinely hampering efforts to revitalize these languages, but Today's Native isn't that, it is as far as I can tell just straight up Indigenous Christian boomers making content for other Indigenous Christian boomers.
Interesting, good to know. I just assumed it was either AI slop or was people that barely/don't know the language, since that's been a problem in other cases
Translation is a use-case for AI that I think is inarguably good. The quality of translation now in almost all languages is getting very useable and while it makes errors in some weird ways they are usually still quite understandable in the context they occur in.
The number of things I have been able to access because translation is good now is much higher than it ever was before. Things that are far too niche for a human to bother doing. I will take MTL wherever human translation isn't already occurring voluntarily.