You can NOT trust Google Translate
Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2017 9:07 pm
Especially for lesser languages.
This was on the frontpage of Reddit today:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/com ... upic/ooga/
As I posted there:
"Oh fer crissakes---this was a 4chan trick, they pre-loaded the Somali Google Translate with crap two years ago"
https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments ... translate/
https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments ... ns_somali/
https://voat.co/v/4chan/1879436
https://4archive.org/board/pol/thread/37373872
https://funnyjunk.com/channel/4chan/Pol ... e/tuyrLgh/
So much for the wonders of machine learning and AI. Free advice: do NOT trust Google Translate for translating lesser tongues reliably, because it learns language grammar partly from user input. And trolls have been deliberately messing with it. Someone else in that thread commented that the Japanese section also has deliberate errors.
This was on the frontpage of Reddit today:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/com ... upic/ooga/
As I posted there:
"Oh fer crissakes---this was a 4chan trick, they pre-loaded the Somali Google Translate with crap two years ago"
https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments ... translate/
https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments ... ns_somali/
https://voat.co/v/4chan/1879436
https://4archive.org/board/pol/thread/37373872
https://funnyjunk.com/channel/4chan/Pol ... e/tuyrLgh/
So much for the wonders of machine learning and AI. Free advice: do NOT trust Google Translate for translating lesser tongues reliably, because it learns language grammar partly from user input. And trolls have been deliberately messing with it. Someone else in that thread commented that the Japanese section also has deliberate errors.