I wouldn't want to ascribe maliciousness where incompetence could be the more likely outcome but this would only translate like this under 2 conditions:
a constantly learning/re-learning translation model
editorially
The former seems unusual because most words don't change in translation based on current events ... unless Meta is of the opinion that what words mean is based on their users opinions.
I also tested this phrase on a few LLMs & none of them translated to that.
@taylorlorenz While we can roll our eyes on such translation errors, it was probably done by a neural net. As a model of how one works, imagine a one-year old child that can speak and that knows what words tend to follow other words, but that has no idea as to what anything means. Plus the child was trained on Twitter.
@taylorlorenz unfollowed - unethical post writing that missed key words of “translation”, “AI”, etc. I suspect your reasons were to help drive traffic for ads. I follow sincere journalism only. Happy to discuss further.
@taylorlorenz Christian Arabs say “alhamdulillah” too, so maybe Meta is playing inclusive 4D chess and saying that anyone can be a terrorist regardless of religion 😛
@kingwill101@taylorlorenz some kind of ai translation issue, probably. highly doubt this was purposeful. it is an interesting case study on implicit via in ai training, though.
@taylorlorenz More accurate statement is that the translation of the Palestinian flag plus an Arabic language phrase (Alhamdulillah is an Arabic phrase meaning "praise be to God") incorrectly added the word terrorist. They didn't "insert" a word into bios of users. They incorrectly translated.
Add comment