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We just had a hilarious/sad case in German public media where it seemed like Google Translate was used for "plant shaped C4 charges" which resulted in a transla
by Semaphor 4y ago
We just had a hilarious/sad case in German public media where it seemed like Google Translate was used for "plant shaped C4 charges" which resulted in a translation for "plant-shaped" instead of "planting shaped" [0] and then asked an expert how realistic it is that C4 was disguised as plants…
[0]: https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=de&text=plant%20shaped%20C4%20charges&op=translate https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=de&text=plant%20shape...
- numpad0 4y agoI think the parent is meant to say that MTs are only good as randomly hitting the keyboard to professional eyes... But besides, I doubt "plant shaped C4" contains enough information to guarantee a correct answer in that case. Trying partial sentences and/or individual words through (human or machine) translations don't go well.
- Semaphor 4y agoYeah, you are right, for some reason I thought I was replying to grandparent. Removed the "maybe not" as I meant to agree with parent. The plant shaped was not a fragment, but the whole text, this has a screenshot [0]. It was about fact-checking the Seymour Hersh Nordstream 2 article. [0] https://nitter.librenode.org/Samy_t42/status/1628793121965211649 https://nitter.librenode.org/Samy_t42/status/162879312196521...