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Māori Text-to-Speech Model Rejects Big Tech Data
Only 4.3 percent of New Zealanders speak te reo Māori fluently, yet LLMs leverage scraped community data to mimic the language. A new indigenous text-to-speech model rejects this extractive approach. It prioritizes community sovereignty over the data-scraping norms of Big Tech. This shift forces a rethink of linguistic data ownership.