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@@ -475,6 +475,10 @@ Evidence may be, but is not limited to:
 - An AI or Contribution policy that carves out a space for "using LLMs to understand the code" or "finding bugs"
 - Core maintainer using or accepting the use of AI for finding bugs or security issues
 
+> [!NOTE]
+> ##### Translations Exception
+> We make an exception to this tag for translations during cross-language collaboration in a project, because we're not currently aware of modern non-LLM translation tooling for every language, and we don't want to prevent people from communicating. We'd prefer if people used something like Libretranslate, or other self-hosted translation tooling, to reduce direct reliance on big tech, but even that is using LLMs at this time.
+
 > [!tip]
 > This tag is not to be confused with [![Permissive AI policy](./badges/permissive-ai-policy-orange.svg)](#permissive-ai-policy), which is for when there is already AI generated code in the codebase or agent instructions, such as `AGENTS.md`, in the repo.