And has this guy never seen a chorse before?

(Okay, I got nothing after that one. Based on my limited knowledge of French, this is appears to be a terrible translation issue- tree = arbre, horse = cheval, house = maison.)

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[–] 104 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (18 children)

I think that it's just a screenshot of on-screen translation (like Google Lens or whatever, you can def see the artefacts) of this:

(Caption is, naturally, compete bullshit)

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Before I zoomed in on the picture, my first thought is the letters supposed to represent their respective objects could have been in French words. A for arbre, b for balloon, and c for cheval.

    Yup, the OOP is really just milking for social media likes by faking the post.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Yes, I had that thought too - as a learning tool/exercise for kids perhaps, but the use value would have been weird (in the sense that usually they well tell you to 'only speak that language' when you are learning it).

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Might even be AI translated, as the font is whack

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What I meant was AI image manipulation, as in uploading the image to chatGPT and saying "give me this image with english text"

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    They used white out and then wrote the translated words in. It's obvious when you zoom in.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The pictures have the same kind of artifacts though. This is AI upscaled at the very least.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Thats how translators & augmented reality works.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Picture translators add text boxes in another language on top of recognized text. They don't contain such artifacts and can be rendered at any resolution. These artifacts will only appear if output from a picture translator is processed further.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    ok but how did google translate go from Yacht to Yote??? what is a Yote????

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