LLMMedium
Google Lens’s Camera-Based Translation Feature Provided an Offensive Mistranslation of a Book Title in Korean
- Occurred
- Jul 18, 2022
- Published
- Aug 10, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A book title by Korea’s first minister of culture was mistranslated into an offensive phrase by Google Lens’s camera-based translation feature allegedly due to its training on internet communications and a lack of context.
Developers
Deployers
Harmed parties
- Google Lens users
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Google Lens translation error caused offensive output due to model training issues.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8