Help AI Understand Bahasa Indonesia
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Bahasa Indonesia (Bahasa Indonesia) is spoken across Indonesia, the fourth most populous country, and the wider archipelago, yet most AI models handle it poorly. Tendril lets anyone help change that: open a browser tab to contribute compute, or tap on your phone to judge which of two AI answers is better. Your input becomes open human-feedback data that can be used to build AI that understands Bahasa Indonesia. You earn TEND Points, not money.
Why AI struggles with Bahasa Indonesia
Indonesian is spoken by hundreds of millions, yet local terms for health, schooling, and government services are weak spots for most models. Training data skews to a few high-resource languages, evaluation sets rarely cover Bahasa Indonesia, and local meaning gets lost. Human judgments from Bahasa Indonesia speakers are exactly the signal that fixes this.
How you help
Open a Tab: open a tab and Tendril quietly runs AI work in the background using only your spare capacity. It steps aside the moment you need your machine. Open a Tab.
Tap to Train: on your phone, see two AI answers and tap the better one. It takes seconds. Each tap is a human-preference judgment that can help make AI better at Bahasa Indonesia. Tap to Train.
What understanding Bahasa Indonesia looks like
Consider a request like: "Explain how to apply for BPJS health coverage and what it costs a small family." Today's models often stumble on prompts like this. Human judgments on answers to prompts like it are the open data Tendril helps create.
Open data, in the open
The data the network creates is a public good. The Tendril Foundation's mission is open AI for the languages and communities the market skips, including Bahasa Indonesia. More at tendril.foundation, or see the Bahasa Indonesia dataset page for buyers.
Bahasa Indonesia FAQ
- Do I need to speak Bahasa Indonesia to help?
- It helps most if you do. Tap to Train judgments from fluent Bahasa Indonesia speakers are the most valuable signal. But anyone can contribute compute by opening a tab.
- Is it free?
- Totally. Nothing to buy, no subscription. You lend a little of your device's spare power, or tap a few times on your phone, and you earn points for it.
- What do I get for it?
- You earn TEND Points for everything you contribute, and they actually mean something. Points are your rank, your reputation, and your proof that you helped build open AI. They are not money and we never promise payouts. A token is on the roadmap, and points are how the network recognizes the people who power it.