r/googletranslate

can somebody explain this

Interesting model training artifact I found as a suggestion when entering “the” on Google Translate (Russian to English).

Has anyone else seen this with google translate?

I hit some kind of language detection glitch and instead of the usual detection to the Thai language, it detected another language (Afar). It started outputting completely unrelated profane and disturbing phrases that weren’t in the original text at all.

What was weird is it didn’t feel like a typical mistranslation .. the output looked almost corrupted or broken in some way and the repeated word patterns are a little concerning. Did someone programme it as a joke or is this just a coincidence?? I tested a few languages and the same words came up.

I already submitted feedback to Google!

The bug: your whole text must be in one language otherwise Google Translate just gives up

I don't have Spanish region, language pack, keyboard or anything installed in my phone. Why are the definitions given in the source language? There's no button to set my native English as the "known" language.

Google must have hit its head today because that is NOT DUTCH.

ok now i think GT lost its mind for sure. advanced mode gives like the most random answers when you spam randomly into it.
here, its quoting a sacred text, when all i typed was random characters.

I am a whole RED BLOODED American, who speaks English and nothing in my language preferences has changed. Yet, when I highlight a text, Google Translate decides I speak Spanish and it translates into that. I checked my language preferences, realized I had “add new languages“ on, deleted Spanish from my languages and I thought that fixed it. Nope! Nothing changed. What now??