I found this while browsing Reddit, and going past the first reaction of “this is terrible” I think it can spark an interesting discussion on machine learning and how our own societal problems can end up creating bad habits and immortalizing those issues when building such systems.
So, what do you guys think about this?
Google Translate is based on AI, so someone on Mastodon suggested it might be a gender bias in the training data.
Also, English has “they” for gender neutral, get on that, Google.