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Israel Arrested Palestinian Because Facebook Translated "Good Morning" to "Attack Them"

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

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for boru

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 01 2017, @12:26AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 01 2017, @12:26AM (#590292)

    there would be no ‎more Israel

    And that is a good thing. Israel should not exist. Khazars should go back to Khazaria. Palestine (occupied and unoccupied) belongs to Palestinians whether they are Muslim or Christian.

    The illegitimate state of Israel was negotiated into existence by the Rothschilds and the British. Look it up. Balfour declaration, 1917 [wikipedia.org]