Translation site lashed for 'shocking' racist explanations

[oldsoftie]

Source: MalayMail

PARIS, March 1 — A major translation website was lashed today for offering up anti-Semitic and racist explanations of words.

Users who typed “nicer” into Reverso looking for a French equivalent were offered the example: “Hitler was a lot nicer to the Jews than they deserved.”

A search of “much nicer” produced the result “Dachau was much nicer than Auschwitz.”

The French-based service used by more than 45 million people a month threw up equally hateful results for the word “Jew”.
“There are too many Jews here”, “Here is the ultimate example of how the Jews control America” and “This is why the Jews are so dangerous” it offered as examples of how the word is used.

Read more: https://www.malaymail.com/news/world/2019/03/01/translation-site-lashed-for-shocking-racist-explanations/1728261

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This doesnt happen by accident. Someone programmed the site to work this way

[UpInArms]

1. WTF????

What world have I awakened to this morning?

[PatSeg]

2. It truly boggles the mind, doesn't it?

Like we've traveled back in time.

[IronLionZion]

3. They had a Nazi working there

they should find that person and fire him/her. And how did nobody check this person's work?

Maybe they had multiple Nazis

[forklift]

4. Disgusting

Hope they can find the people who wrote the code.

[rpannier]

5. Yeah. Uhhhhh... That's not by accident

That was done intentionally

[47of74]

10. And they're in no hurry to fix it either.

[FakeNoose]

6. Maybe they were hacked

Looks like some Alt-right kid got in there and spoofed them when they weren't looking.

[LiberalArkie]

7. Might get it from scanning twitter.

I think it was IBM that was trying to train an AI and it used Twitter and had to shut it down as it got too racist and vulgar


Humans are not as nice as we like to pretend we are. If a machine can earn to be racist, I wonder if the children also learn

[47of74]

9. It was Microsoft

https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-chatbot-racist

They had to shut down Tay after about a day because of the Reich wing douche nozzles out there.

[LiberalArkie]

11. I remember that it happened, just not who. I thought it was Watson that went off the rails

[PatrickforO]

8. This cannot be allowed to happen again.

I can remember some political talk show or other, after Trump had been elected but during those blessed few days we still had Obama.

The host was talking to some lady who was a noted author and historian.

She said she hoped we didn't have a holocaust.