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October 24, 2017 12:18 pm GMT
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Facebook's auto translation AI fail leads to a nightmare for a Palestinian man
Bad translations often make good comedy, but in the case of this Palestinian man, they marked the start of a nightmare.
Israeli police arrested the man, a construction worker in a West Bank settlement near Jerusalem, after he posted on Facebook a picture of himself leaning against a bulldozer with the caption reading "يصبحهم" or "Good Morning" in Arabic.
Facebook's automatic translation service, which uses its own AI system, translated the post into "attack them" in Hebrew, or "hurt them" in English: Read more...
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