The (Globalized) Three Amigos: Translating and Disseminating HIV/AIDS Prevention Discourse
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The effects of a translated text are notoriously hard to trace and establish. However, in the case of The Three Amigos , a series of short public service announcements on HIV/AIDS prevention that feature three comic figures (animated condoms) and accompany them through numerous adventures in 50 languages, the effects have been hugely successful–measurable in numbers of condoms sold! This article studies some of the translation problems posed by this Canadian production, and examines aspects of the Anglo-American source culture that are now hampering the distribution of this highly successful work. It thus positions translation dissemination as an issue related to source culture policies and politics that may play a bigger role in translation “effects” than a felicitous translation. Keywords: translating HIV/AIDS discourse, translating animation, translating wordplay and jokes, translation and source culture politics.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it