… AI is increasingly used to deliver content cheaply and quickly, and voice actors are beginning to push back, even though they don’t have strong unions, Rafael Grohmann, an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Toronto, told Rest of World . “Particularly in the Global South, they… …
… Engineers in the U.S. told me they have adopted algorithms used in Chinese AI models, including DeepSeek and Qwen, to improve their own models’ performance. There is also a shared cultural identity. …
… Earlier this year, Egypt banned the use of AI to interpret the Quran because of concerns that chatbots such as ChatGPT and Claude were moving Muslim users toward Western values, and away from their communities. …
… Communities from Chile to India are opposing the construction of energy- and water-guzzling data centers, voice actors are forming unions to resist the use of AI in movies and commercials, and workers are demanding a share of the riches accruing to a handful of AI companies, founders and investors. …
… Indian startups including voice AI company Sarvam and Adalat AI, which provides legal services, use a frugal approach. The Soliga voice models use Raspberry Pi hardware that runs on the Linux open-source operating system. …
… According to analytics and advisory company Gallup, 45% of employees now use AI at work. …
… Not because of translation fees or licensing, but because of how AI breaks language down into tokens. …
… The system often misunderstood key agricultural terms due to accent variation. In one case, it confused masoor a type of lentil with mushroom, generating advice that was not only incorrect but potentially harmful. …
… Such uses — and reactions — stand in sharp contrast to the growing pushback to AI-generated videos and voice clones, which are most commonly used for harassment , extortion, financial scams , political misinformation , and election manipulation. …
… Talent becomes harder to use as leverage. Energy is another thing that a lot of countries can use as leverage. …