This happens a lot with Japanese translations, mainly because the subject (eg. you, me, him, etc) is frequently omitted from a sentence, and needs to be inferre

This happens a lot with Japanese translations, mainly because the subject (eg. you, me, him, etc) is frequently omitted from a sentence, and needs to be inferred from context. Machine translations rarely have that context, but need to insert a subject to form a natural sentence in English, so they'll just guess. For example "he's not hungry" can machine-translate into "I'm not hungry", and sometimes this can really mess with a sentence's meaning or create major miscommunication. A human translator would at least warn you when there's ambiguity, but machine translators tend to just go with their best guess.