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   Taiwan's Traditional Chinese AI corpus stalls as copyright law stays unchanged

   A TechNews report citing the Taiwanese magazine Business Today (今周刊) says Taiwan's effort to build sovereign-AI Traditional Chinese corpora is constrained more by copyright rules than by technology, with only about 1% of training data coming from the private sector. Taiwan.md, an open knowledge base started by new-media artist Wu Che-yu, has collected 1,123 Traditional Chinese articles drawn mainly from public academic papers, blogs and government material, and the team discards anything with copyright doubt. The report cites a July 2025 case in which a National Taiwan University doctoral student faced a criminal complaint from the Central News Agency over 140,000 unauthorized news items in a shared corpus; the two sides later settled and the corpus was taken down, which researchers describe as a chilling effect. Chinese-language training data for major models is mostly Simplified Chinese, with Traditional Chinese under 1%, the report adds.

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   Taiwan's moda launches open-source AI reimbursement portal for welfare subsidies

   Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs (moda) on Oct. 12 unveiled a "Digital Reimbursement Service Network" built with the Ministry of Health and Welfare's Social and Family Affairs Administration, using OCR and AI to read invoices and receipts, extract fields and help compile and check reimbursement documents; it starts with social-welfare subsidies and public-welfare lottery subsidy cases. moda says the system can cut document sorting and data-entry time by about 90%, shortening large subsidy reimbursements from roughly 10 days to 1 day, covering an estimated 1,300 welfare groups, 4,000 person-times and about NT$1.5 billion in reimbursements a year, with a paper-plus-digital dual track planned from January. The system is also being open-sourced and published on GitHub for other agencies and IT service firms to download, deploy and extend.

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