I see Google Translate continues to completely make shit up if you pick the wrong language pairing

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I see Google Translate continues to completely make shit up if you pick the wrong language pairing
I had this happen too! It was set to German and translated the text as "Nobody learns in the old elementary school any more."
Extremely weird. It should just feed words that aren't recognized as German through unaltered, not... whatever this is.
If I remember right, this started happening when Google replaced their old system with an AI-based translator awhile back. It seemed like they mostly got it under control but I’ve been seeing it a lot more often recently.
I think this is a thing where if it doesn’t have any actual matches on any of the terms it starts trying to pull from a bunch of really improbable stuff. Classic AI problem of confidently returning a really wrong answer instead of saying “I don’t know”