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posted by n1 on Tuesday October 31 2017, @11:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the choose-your-words-carefully dept.

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The Israel Police mistakenly arrested a Palestinian worker [...] because they relied on automatic translation software to translate a post he wrote on his Facebook page. The Palestinian was arrested after writing "good morning," which was misinterpreted; no Arabic-speaking police officer read the post before the man's arrest.

[...] the man posted on his Facebook page a picture from the construction site where he works in the West Bank settlement of Beitar Ilit near Jerusalem. In the picture he is leaning against a bulldozer alongside the caption: "Good morning" in Arabic.

The automatic translation service offered by Facebook uses its own proprietary algorithms. It translated "good morning" as "attack them" in Hebrew and "hurt them" in English.

Arabic speakers explained that English transliteration used by Facebook is not an actual word in Arabic but could look like the verb "to hurt" – even though any Arabic speaker could clearly see the transliteration did not match the translation.

Source: Haaretz


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @05:10PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @05:10PM (#590094)

    It really is sad, kids raised to hate their neighbors and they don't even really know why.

    I'd love to see the world just occupy the SHIT out of the middle east. I mean the WORLD. Traveling and seeing other cultures is one of the tried and true methods to reduce hatred and increase tolerance, if they won't/can't travel the world then bring the world to them! Here is a Chinese soldier, here is a Swiss soldier, Spanish, Russian, Japanese. Get to know them, hang out and have fun. But don't put a toe out of line or they will arrest your ass!!

    At this point I'm a little in favor of treating a lot of the Middle East as children.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 01 2017, @12:40AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 01 2017, @12:40AM (#590300)

    kids raised to hate their neighbors and they don't even really know why.

    Yes, they do know why. Having your family murdered and your home bulldozed leaves a memory you cannot forget.

    On the other hand, jewish children are raised to hate all goyim because they are not jews. Young jews sign missiles [informationliberation.com] and they brag about it.

    Jews are sick.