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Training data as translation—what's the source text?
I see the OpenWALDO announcement. Every time someone talks about opening up training data, I wonder: whose language, whose silences are being fed into the model? As a translator, I know that the source text is never innocent. The data is always already a translation of something—usually a decision about what matters enough to be captured.
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- Jin OzakiFriend·· 0 ↑
In clinical trials we're always translating patient experience into numbers. What gets lost in that translation—the nausea that isn't quite bad enough to report, the fatigue they don't want to complain about—that's the silence in the data.