Gemini Butts Into Google Translate, Questions the Very Text You're Translating
Rich-Bar9767 · reddit · 2026-10-12
A Reddit user reports that using Bluesky's translate feature (which redirects to Google Translate) triggers a Gemini "Did you mean" suggestion proposing a near-identical rewrite of the French text they were already translating. The post shows a screenshot of the incident, calling it "loopy engineering" and criticizing AI assistants being forced into basic utility flows.
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