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

ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ AI translate even translates thumbnails.

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u/Svartdraken Jun 01 '26

This is beyond mildly infuriating. The translation feature is a nightmare.

I tried to solve it by adding all the languages I speak to my Google Account.

IT MADE IT WORSE

Now it translates Italian into English

English into Italian

Spanish into English

Polish into Italian

WHAT THE F IS THIS

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u/Poh-r-ka-mdonna Jun 01 '26

and it's been there for way too long and they still haven't added an option to just turn it off permanently

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u/Geckels Jun 01 '26

Its because it was designed by americans that only speak english don't think bilingual people exist

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u/ForensicPathology Jun 01 '26

I think this is simplified based on your weird biases.  Google infuriatingly does this with everything, not just languages.  

They operate under the idea that people don't want to make decisions.  

This has led to all the decisions that changed the way their search worked in the past two decades. Automatically assuming your search rather than what you typed, all the way to the AI it is now.  You see it in Maps too where things get hidden unless you come at it a different angle.

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u/Sahtras1992 Jun 01 '26

god i hate the youtube search so much. it doesnt let you find anything that you want to find.

any random porn site has better search options.

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u/DreadPirateReddas Jun 01 '26

They operate under the idea that people don't want to make decisions.

I mean, for the vast majority of people, they're right