Stuff did a bunch of steps to have reo #Māori language on their news website.
But soon after they decided to instead have AI translate news stories written in English, into Māori, and not pay translators anymore.
This is not a step to revitalise the language. Every reader could have put a story thru Google translate if they wanted to read the news in uncanny valley mode.
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