Audio4d ago
Māori Community Rejects Big Tech AI Scraping
Only 4.3 percent of New Zealanders speak te reo Māori fluently. Despite this, LLMs like ChatGPT produce fluent text by scraping indigenous audio and text without community consent. Local developers are now building alternative text-to-speech models to reclaim data sovereignty. This highlights a growing conflict between open-web scraping and indigenous intellectual property.