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AI models cost more when you don’t use English: Some languages require far more tokens for AI models to process, raising costs and reducing context for the people who use them. (restofworld.org)
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[+] [S] -7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Silicon Valley built a universal intelligence that apparently charges extra for speaking most of the world’s languages. And the surcharge doesn’t even buy better answers: it buys slower responses and less context. Truly revolutionary: exporting the English only customer service experience to the entire planet.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Everyone on the planet learning a different language is luxury/overhead. There are whole economic branches just for translation.

    Wondering how much CO2 we could save if the world teached only one unified language.

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