Based on the abstract, this has to do mostly with diversity within a language, but the impact on the diversity of languages and their health is even larger. My direct experience is with Catalan. The uphill battle of Catalans to get _anything_ in Catalan continued with tech (where even some manufacturers _removed_ Catalan from their phones purchased in Spain even though it was available by default), but reached new heights of impact with voice assistants and LLMs. They have managed to bring Spanish into Catalan households, because that is the only way they have to e.g. tell a device to start playing their favorite music, tell them the time, or provide directions.
I applaud the efforts by Softcatalà, The Mozilla Common Voice Catalan Community, AINA, etc. but there is a long way to go, and the damage is being done now.
I applaud the efforts by Softcatalà, The Mozilla Common Voice Catalan Community, AINA, etc. but there is a long way to go, and the damage is being done now.