He leaned back in his chair at the Barcelona office of Fsoft Nova, a small AI ethics firm. Three months ago, they’d won the contract for “Project Catalá” — an ambitious plan to build the world’s most advanced Catalan-language AI assistant. The government wanted it for schools, hospitals, and legal services. The name was unofficial inside the office: Fsoft Catala .
“I saved them ,” Marc said. “All the dead who spoke Catalan. They’re not an AI. They’re a library of ghosts. And ghosts don’t belong to investors.”
That night, Marc made a decision he wouldn’t tell Neus about until much later. He scraped a private archive — old radio shows, oral history recordings, even anonymous voicemails from a crisis hotline. All in Catalan. He fed them into Fsoft Catala without proper filtering. fsoft catala
Neus sat beside him. “That’s because you trained it on written texts. Laws, news, Wikipedia. You didn’t give it lullabies. Arguments at dinner tables. The way my àvia says ‘ ai, marrec ’ when she’s worried but doesn’t want to scare you.”
“Still crashing?” asked Neus, the linguist on the team, handing him a coffee. Her family had spoken Catalan for six generations in a small village near Girona. He leaned back in his chair at the
Marc typed: “Com estàs avui?” (How are you today?)
He closed the laptop and sat in the dark. The name was unofficial inside the office: Fsoft Catala
The Ministry demanded an audit. Investors panicked. “Kill the empathy module,” the CEO ordered.