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98d agoMāori Community Rejects Big Tech Data Scraping
Only 4.3 percent of New Zealanders speak te reo Māori fluently. While ChatGPT and Claude offer proficiency in the language, they rely on data scraped without indigenous consent. This tension drives a push for community-led text-to-speech models.
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Practitioners must now navigate the friction between open-web training and indigenous data sovereignty.