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Any ideas what software they are using? Alhamdulillah is a very widely used expression. My guess is that they used an LLM, which translated it correctly but the
by 8organicbits 3y ago
Any ideas what software they are using? Alhamdulillah is a very widely used expression. My guess is that they used an LLM, which translated it correctly but then decided to hallucinate more text. If so, that says that lot about their training text...
- morkalork 3y agoImagine going through customs in a foreign country and they screen your social profiles with an LLM translation like that.
- nonethewiser 3y agoImagine going through customs in a foreign country and they screen your social profiles
- alwayslikethis 3y agoI'm fairly sure the US does this
- nisegami 3y agoUS customs had me give them the credentials for my facebook profile back in 2017, so it's not that uncommon. Edit: I had mentioned twitter as well originally, but I think what happened was I told them my twitter password was in my password manager and offered to get it off my phone (in their possession at the time) but the guy said it wasn't necessary. For context, I was a 22 year old student travelling from my home country in the caribbean to the US after summer break. Also for context, I'm brown and have a muslim name.
- 3-cheese-sundae 3y agoHow did they know you used those platforms?
- amatecha 3y agoI mean.. I saw the border agent searching my name on Google years ago (let's say ~2005-2008-ish) when I was entering the US from Canada (one of the Vancouver-area border crossings). They looked at my website or myspace page IIRC, I forget what. I could see their screen which was tilted slightly at an angle such that it was visible from my position outside the booth/window. BTW, this wasn't for any reason or anything, it was a totally normal crossing and they just started looking up my name on the web as if it were standard procedure. I'm sure that's all automated now, they probably get a nice listing of data they have on you the moment your passport is scanned at the border. Who knows? Maybe now they'll get a 3d avatar of your face because it's been scanned at the airport of any allied country, because you had the audacity to travel out-of-country and are now subjected to unprecedented data collection.
- jahnu 3y agoReminds me of this story https://www.wired.com/2007/04/canadian-psycho/ https://www.wired.com/2007/04/canadian-psycho/
- bo-tao 3y agoUS Customs screen your social profiles and for some people they check everything on your phone
- radres 3y agoyou have a strong passport and clueless what other people go through.
- zen_1 3y agoHey if you're Arab or Palestenian you're likely to get scrutiny no matter what
- fkislam 3y ago[flagged]
- parthdesai 3y agoNot an arab, but as a brown person, it's a bit funny when TSA always "randomly" selects you for screening
- allarm 3y agoIt’s literally a requirement when you’re applying for an US visa. You have to list your social media accounts on the application form.
- smusamashah 3y agoI don't think it translated Alhamdulillah wrong. It can be seen there translated as "Praise be God". The "Palestenian :flag:" seems to be translated to Palestanian terrorists. Could be the job of LLM, which just saw "Palestenian :flag:" and found "Palestenian terrorism" to be most probable continuation.
- digggit 3y ago[flagged]
- 8organicbits 3y ago> I don't think it translated Alhamdulillah wrong. Correct, they provided a transliterated version.