This article has an interesting premise (mindless data collection by big tech companies leading to very incorrect recreations of still existing cultures and lan

This article has an interesting premise (mindless data collection by big tech companies leading to very incorrect recreations of still existing cultures and languages "for show"/themeparking) but about midway through it becomes a bit of a mess in order to complain about certain pieces of tech/demands for the Maori to control every tech related aspect to innovation that could so much as touch on their language, that don't feel like they have as much substance. Granted, looking at the website itself, this is likely because the article is chiefly meant to promote the organization the website belongs to, which is related to Maori language/culture preservation. One interesting direction I think this article could've gone in is to focus more on what these sorts of mindless recreations can look like; the Scottish Wikipedia was largely edited by one American teenager and it resulted in a wiki that resembled "English ran through what a foreigner thinks is Scottish" more than actual Scottish. That's a real harm that only occurred because the Scottish Wikipedia doesn't seem to have been administered with a lot of attention given to it (because Wikipedia loves launching projects in all languages without really doing the legwork to establish a base for it). That's something that you can use to underpin why it's so important to have native speakers in these sorts of processes rather than jumping to demands that don't feel like they're as well build as the initial complaint against Whisper.