• cerement@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    there was an old urban legend / joke on machine translation

    during the cold war, Americans were trying to use computers to translate Russian messages, they finally got a working program they thought was pretty good, fed it the message “Out of sight, out of mind.” and had it translated to Russian then back to English, the final result was “Invisible, insane.”

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      1 year ago

      There’s this, too - machine translation is often awful, even if you get the context.