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99d agoMāori Text-to-Speech Model Rejects Big Tech Scraping
Indigenous communities in New Zealand are developing a te reo Māori text-to-speech model to counter data scraping by OpenAI and Anthropic. These Big Tech firms ingested community-produced audio without permission to train their LLMs. The new project prioritizes data sovereignty.
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It ensures linguistic control remains with the speakers rather than corporate entities.