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Fucking YouTube trying to translate everything into shitty French for me.
'The Honey scam' becomes 'The honey scam' in French (L'arnaque du miel), as in honey from bees. The "AI" can't even make the difference between a common and proper noun.
Reddit does the same through my Google searches. The original post is in English but Google and Reddit shows it to me in dubious French. It's quite obvious that it has been machine translated.
However bad translations unfortunately doesn't seem to bother a lot of people, nor stop the big corps to push them as much as possible.
I saw a similar issue on a product where the Spanish wording obviously came from a computer translation.
"Made in Turkey" was written as "Hecho en pavo."
Pavo is Spanish for turkey, the animal. Turquía is Spanish for Turkey, the country. A human, even a non-fluent speaker such as myself, would never make that mistake.