As some may recall I made this post about the Balenciaga company, and how Google Translate had the word "Balenciaga" defined as meaning "Baal is the king". This translation had gone viral, as I was seeing it come across my YouTube feed. I went and checked it myself and it sure did have the translation as Baal is the king, but as you will see in the comments section of that post I made, the translation proved to be wrong, and the reasons for how this could have happened are outlined there.

h/t to u/FractalizingIron and all the other frens who called it out! I deleted the OP so it wouldn't remain on the front page and dupe more people but figured I'd make this post to give a reference back to the comments for the lesson.

TLDR: Don't blindly trust online translators or any other AI, and go read the comments in that deleted post if you haven't.

As some may recall I made this post about the Balenciaga company, and how Google Translate had the word "Balenciaga" defined as meaning "Baal is the king". This translation had gone viral, as I was seeing it come across my YouTube feed. I went and checked it myself and it sure did have the translation as Baal is the king, but as you will see in the comments section of that post I made, the translation proved to be wrong, and the reasons for how this could have happened are outlined there. h/t to u/FractalizingIron and all the other frens who called it out! I deleted the OP so it wouldn't remain on the front page and dupe more people but figured I'd make this post to give a reference back to the comments for the lesson.

TLDR: Don't blindly trust online translators or any other AI, and go read the comments in that deleted post if you haven't.

As some may recall I made this post about the Balenciaga company, and how Google Translate had the word "Balenciaga" defined as meaning "Baal is the king". This translation had gone viral, as I was seeing it come across my YouTube feed. I went and checked it myself and it sure did have the translation as Baal is the king, but as you will see in the comments section of that post I made, the translation proved to be wrong, and the reasons for how this could have happened are outlined there. h/t to u/FractalizingIron and all the other frens who called this out! I deleted the OP so it wouldn't remain on the front page and dupe more people but figured I'd make this post to give a reference back to the comments for the lesson.

TLDR: Don't blindly trust online translators or any other AI, and go read the comments in that deleted post if you haven't.

As some may recall I made this post about Balenciaga and how Google Translate had it defined as meaning "Baal is the king". This translation had gone viral, as I was seeing it come across my YouTube feed. I went and checked it myself and it sure did have the translation as Baal is the king, but as you will see in the comments section of that post, this translation proved to be wrong, and the reasons for how this could have happened are outlined there as well. h/t to u/FractalizingIron and all the other frens who called this out! I deleted the OP so it wouldn't remain on the front page and dupe more people but figured I'd make this post to give a reference back to the comments for the lesson.

TLDR: Don't blindly trust online translators or any other AI, and go read the comments in that deleted post if you haven't.