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The way Google Translate works, which is actually explained pretty nicely by Google statement quoted in this article, makes this a non-story in my opinion. Whet
by daturkel 11y ago
The way Google Translate works, which is actually explained pretty nicely by Google statement quoted in this article, makes this a non-story in my opinion. Whether by an intentional attack (somehow flooding the Google corpus [the whole indexed web in a given language?] with biased texts) or a statistical mishap, this is ultimately fairly uninteresting when you realize that: no, no one at Google "snuck" this in there.
In the attack scenario, if there were details as to how someone pulled off a Google-bomb style attack, that would be kind of fun and interesting. Otherwise, there's not much to say.
- d0mine 11y agoHow likely that the Ministry of Truth has asked Google to make a "mistake"?
- pekk 11y agoWho do you mean by "the Ministry of Truth"?
- crpatino 11y agoIf you truly did not get it, go read 1984, now. On the other hand, asking which specific (US) agency plays the exact same role as the Ministry of Truth in the novel is kind of pointless. The short answer is none, but that doesn't mean the same kind of propaganda is not happening in a more nuanced/subtle form nowadays.
- daturkel 11y agoLooks like it's too late for me to edit parent comment, but see tetromino_'s comment for cool details behind why this may have happened. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10858904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10858904