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A spokesperson has told journalists that Christian messages being mistakenly outputted on Google translate are “nonsense”.
The comments come after glitches in Googles Translate program started outputting Christian messages by mistake.
For example users on Reddit reported that when translating certain things on Google translate users would get unexpected results. For example translating Maori to English and typing “dog” 19 times produced a message saying “We are experiencing characters and dramatic developments in the world, which indicate that we are increasingly approaching the end times and Jesus’ return.”. It was also reported by some users that translating Somali to English and typing “ag” a number of times into the program produced random passages extracted from the bible.
It is believed that these Christian messages arose because of the way Google translate AI uses Books and online content to learn from and a bug caused the learning data to display instead of a translation. According to Sean Colbath, a scientist with BBN Technologies who works with machine translation “smaller languages that are not widely spoken, like Maori, and have smaller bodies of translated text than languages spoken across the globe such as English or Chinese.” adding that it is possible that Google used religious texts like the Bible to learn from. However, some have even speculated that Google might be using peoples harvested private messages from services such as Gmail and Android to learn from.
When asked about the Christian messages by VICE a Google spokesperson responded by stating “This is simply a function of inputting nonsense into the system, to which nonsense is generated.” To make a PUBLIC STATEMENT such as this is not right! All Google should have said was that our algorithms messed up and we are working to correct the issue rather than calling the messages nonsense.
People should take no notice of the scoffers, “you know that it is the rich who are always trying to control your lives.” First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.
