User Translates Grandfather's Memoir with AI, Finds Bizarre 'Comrade' Mistranslations
dragon_khoi · x · 2026-08-13
A user shared a heartwarming story of using AI to translate their late grandfather's Chinese memoir into a bilingual edition. Having struggled to learn Chinese, the user found that the AI translation produced results far better than imagined.
However, the thread also highlighted some wild model quirks encountered during the process, such as the AI bizarrely translating the title 'Mr.' into the ideologically loaded term 'Comrade'.
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