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As a Romanian, I'm so sick of AI translations on YouTube, especially since they use Google's translation (OpenAI's at least works quite well). Here's an example (translated back to English):

> Man Builds Background of Tan for Swedish House

It's completely puzzling. To understand it you have to know both English and Romanian. "Background of tan" is the term for "foundation" (makeup) in Romanian. That is, "foundation" has two meanings in English: for a house and for makeup, but Google uses the wrong one.

Automatic translation is full of these bad associations. I have no idea how people who don't speak English understand these translations.



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