Apparently deepl thinks that the discovery of America cannot have taken place in 1492 and autocorrects the year to 1942!
Is that the director of Harry Potter?
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Yeah. Also, I’m increasingly noticing that when translating larger blocks of text, Deepl will occasionally replace a sentence’s translation with the translation of the sentence next to it, and it’ll keep using that translation even when I’ve deleted the adjacent sentence.
For example:
Deepl, only one of those bullet points actually reads “Do not use if you have scars, rashes, or other skin problems.” And if I delete that bullet point from the original text, it simply removes one of the “Do not use…” lines from the translation.
It’s doing me a concern.
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Off topic. I’ve never used deepl, how does it compare to Google’s translator?
EDIT: I’ve noticed now that it doesn’t allow translation from English to Japanese, only the contrary, so it can’t fully replace Google as of now
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Toss all the numbers in a bag, shake it up, and draw them out at random.
It’s several orders of magnitude better, with the biggest caveat being that it tends to favour a natural-sounding translation over an accurate one. So, sometimes it… guesses.
Ohhh, I noticed that too! So I’m not insane!
The trick is that you need to set the “from” language to English first. Then Japanese appears in the “to” language list.
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This could be that they trained the network on texts that contained mistakes like that, and so now the network has learned the mistake! 
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Thanks, that’s very useful to know.
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1942 was the battle of Midway so maybe it just parsed a lot of text containing that year.
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its not a translater, it’s a fancy statistical language model 
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Yeah but that’s pretty much all of us as well. lol
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lets not repeat the AGI debate we had before (fun as it was) 
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I like that it goes for a more natural-sounding translation over a literal one, but Google has the romaji along the bottom which is really nice if I am copy/pasting a chunk of text I can’t read. It’s not perfect, but it is nice.