[TheRealPomax]

Because forcing people to speak the ruling class's lingua franca has done so much good for the 500+ languages we already forced out of existence? If anything, finally having proper real-time translation would allow folks to keep speaking their native tongue instead of being forced to abandon it.

Languages with global speaker bases will be fine, but languages with tiny speaker groups would highly benefit from having an alternative to "stop speaking your own language and learn ours, or your government won't talk to you".

[lioeters]

Great point. I can imagine this could become a real thing: training AI/LLMs in obscure languages in order to preserve them.