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99d agoMāori Community Rejects Big Tech AI Scraping
Only 4.3 percent of New Zealanders speak te reo Māori fluently. Despite this, models like ChatGPT generate the language using scraped community data without consent. Local developers are now building sovereign text-to-speech tools to protect linguistic intellectual property.
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This move forces a confrontation between open-web scraping and indigenous data sovereignty.