The sumo japanese team quits en masse, accusing mozilla’s ai system of erasing years of community translation work. Mozilla, the developer of firefox, has its support pages translated into languages around the world by volunteers, including japanese However, on october 22, 2025, a machine translation bot. I quit to contribute to support.mozilla.org I prohibit to use all my translation as learning data for sumo bot and ais I request to remove all my translation from learned data of sumo ais.
The japanese branch of mozilla's support mozilla (sumo) community — responsible for localizing and maintaining… The original sin here is mozilla just enabling this without any input from the active translation community This isn't a new problem, loads of japanese translations from tech companies have been garbage for a while People sticking things into machine translation, translators missing context so having absolutely nothing to go on. Please visit our website to register as a volunteer.
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