Not What a Child Expressed: Auditing the Sign-to-Text Safety Interface in Child-Facing AI

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arXiv:2610.07519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic sign language translation (SLT) has entered consumer products, turning American Sign Language into English text for dictation, messaging, and queries put to a conversational assistant. Child-facing AI and platform trust-and-safety tooling decide on text, using filters on minor accounts and grooming classifiers that score chat messages. A signing child who uses SLT therefore reaches these safeguards through a translation. We found no publi