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My German professor mentioned a few times in class about how automated translators had picked up sexist biases because of older training materials.

• wolfgke 10y ago
  Which is to me rather a sign of how society changes meaning of the language to indoctrinate a kind of social propaganda. Greetings from George Orwell's 1984.
  • throwanem 10y ago
    In fairness, there's a distinction to be made here between directed and undirected change.
    • wolfgke 10y ago
      When SJW warrior groups make campaigns that from now on some list of words has to be considered as racist, sexist, ...ist etc. I think one can talk of directed change.
      • akhilcacharya 10y ago
        ..what if those words are?
        • wolfgke 10y ago
          At least people before did not consider them to be. This shows that proving that say are is not so easy.
          • hamax 10y ago
            Or people before didn't care if they are?
  • Jordrok 10y ago
    It's also a sign of how blind adherence to tradition causes old biases to persist and prevents any kind of progress, good or bad.