Google translate is horribly wrong in thinking that the anime "Delicious in Dungeon" is "Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon" in Japanese.
I'm guessing that google thinks that Anime + Dungeon = DanMachi.
Learning Italian with #Duolingo went to check on a word in #Googletranslate, and it's completely different, so either Duolingo's wrong or Googles AI is rubbish, I suspect the latter.
More fun with "#AI" and perhaps an interesting view into how Google translate works?
I looked up the German word gegenwart which GT automatically translated to Dutch* as cadeau (present, in the sense of gift), but actually it means aanwezig, present (in the sense of time), which #DeepL correctly recognised first time.
Both get it right going directly to English rather than Dutch.
So is #GoogleTranslate automatically translating to English + then to 3rd language for these weird errors?
@ivory suggestions: found myself in #ivory’s Settings menu (iOS/iPadOS) and wonder… if “Translate” could be added to the Behaviors/Short Right Swipe option list? and could toot #translation be done not through #googletranslate and possibly by someone else like #deepl (and even done inline similar to #mastodon’s first party app/website)?
Example of the current Google Translate badness for today: Google translates “The white pineapple of Maui is sweet” as “He ono ka paina keokeo o Maui.” Aside from dropping the ʻokinas from “ʻono” and “keʻokeʻo”, it should be a pepeke painu not a pepeke ʻaike he sentence structure, and “paina” is pine tree, it should be “hala kahiki” for pineapple. #OleloHawaii#LearnHawaiian#hawaiian#googleTranslate
I just discovered that if you put Korean text into Google Translate and set the source language to Japanese, sometimes it will output something completely wrong ("hello", "I'm sorry", etc). Whereas when the source language is set to Chinese, it just spits the source text back out. This could be consequential in cases where language auto-detection is wrong. #MachineTranslation#GoogleTranslate
Have you tried to use an #Android phone without a #GoogleAccount ?
I find amazing how difficult is.
While possible, #Google makes sure to make it the worst experience imaginable: Play store doesn't work, #GoogleMaps and #GoogleTranslate constantly ask for an account, default apps cannot be removed... #Fdroid and #AuroraStore help, but you must be really determined.
Being concerned about #GooglePrivacy, I don't see any trace of Google's legendary phrase #DontBeEvil