Grok fumbles Kansai dialect translation, proving MT errors can be hilarious
prajdabre · x · 2026-11-10
A user caught Grok mistranslating a Japanese post — the original was "No good! My stomach hurts" written in Kansai dialect, but Grok got it wrong. prajdabre explains the model simply isn't well designed for Kansai-ben, and muses that machine translation's charm is that errors will always exist — and sometimes they're hilarious.
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