Your regular reminder that #MachineLearning models (or #AI, if you insist on ignoring the meaning of 'intelligence') will repeat and reinforce any #bias that already exists in society.
Can you find any other biases like this in #GoogleTranslate?

@simon I saw an example where the finnish "hän" (a gender neutral pronoun) was being translated as either "he" or "she". E.g. if "hän" was a doctor it'd be translated as "he", nurse would become "she".

(AFAIK finnish doesn't actually have gendered pronouns, I remember an interview with a Norwegian translator who'd worked on several finnish books. They'd even contact the author for clarification only to get a "well, I never really thought of a gender for that minor character" back.)

@Uglesett @simon Oh interesting just tried this one out though and...

@brizee @simon IIRC it got a bit of publicity back when I saw it, so it makes sense that they'd do something about it.

Nice to see, but I guess this is something that needed manual fixing.