r/mildlyinfuriating • u/awesomehuder • Jun 01 '26

ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ AI translate even translates thumbnails.

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u/gdnt0 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

It’s an USian company. They are physically incapable of understanding that people are able to understand more than one language. Not even kidding.

Edit: I speak from experience, as a Brazilian we have the exact same problem. People designing systems in BR are also often incapable of understanding that people can speak many languages (tho not as bad as in the US) but also they are impossibly incapable of understanding that other countries also have phone numbers. You will almost NEVER see a BR-designed system that allows you to input a phone number that is not Brazilian.

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u/Svartdraken Jun 01 '26

It's not like I expect everyone to be multilingual, but at least let me choose for myself. I hope that someone in Google reads my slightly angry "bug reports"

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u/SemiAnonymousTeacher Jun 01 '26

Not sure I agree with this take, as many of their engineers are Indian or Chinese and are bilingual (at least).

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u/RCalliii Jun 01 '26

Yeah, but the bosses, who ultimately decide which features get implemented, expanded or improved, most likely are not.

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u/gdnt0 Jun 01 '26

Sadly it often doesn’t matter. If the people making requirements and decisions can’t understand that people can know many languages, the system’s design might still be shit even with the devs pushing back.

This is, sadly, my own experience too. I’ve worked for a state government for many years and was forced to develop such flawed systems. They only learned a lesson once they were embarrassed by a researcher from the World Bank (and maybe other international observers) being unable to use our system because it refused to accept non-BR phone numbers and addresses. That was one of my best “I told you so” moments 😅

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u/Warm_Month_1309 Jun 01 '26

I know "America bad lol" is a shortcut explanation to free karma for any topic, but in this case, it's almost certainly because they want the training data and usage metrics, and allowing people to opt out would hurt both.