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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/mattsheffield/statuses/116942653815475005">Matthew Sheffield (mattsheffield@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jul-2026 04:54:45 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield" title="mattsheffield@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/75543-48-20240318200400.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Matthew Sheffield" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Matthew Sheffield</a></section><article><p>Another bizarre Grok Korean translation involving Tomodachi Life 🫠</p><p>Despite Grok embarrassing the company on a global scale with sex-themed translations involving the game, no one has added a parameter to Grok that 친모아  (Chin-mo-a) does not mean stepmother, it means Tomodachi Life.</p><p>A 🧵 on what happened and why these translation fails are actually important...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/machinelearning" rel="tag">#machinelearning</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/grok" rel="tag">#grok</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/elonmusk" rel="tag">#elonmusk</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/6559446#notice-12912582">In conversation</a><time datetime="2026-07-19T04:54:45+09:00" title="Sunday, 19-Jul-2026 04:54:45 JST">about 4 hours ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/116942653815475005" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/116942653815475005">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/6267672">A screenshot of an X post featuring a video capture of Tomodachi Life being played in Korean by user @binbotsundoku. The screenshot features a cutesy, female-appearing character with pink ponytails and red eyes wearing a schoolgirl uniform.Grok has translated the post text as: "While doing stepmom stuff, my period came."</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/942/638/727/355/888/original/fc8834aec4d78b9d.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/942/638/727/355/888/original/fc8834aec4d78b9d.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/6267673">The same Tomodachi Life screenshot as in the first image but with the X user's post in the original Korean. It reads: "친모아 하다가 정병옴," or "Chinmoa hadaga jeongbyeong-om."</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/942/645/818/226/074/original/30651ed171b86305.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/942/645/818/226/074/original/30651ed171b86305.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Matthew Sheffield (mattsheffield@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jul-2026 04:54:45 JST Matthew Sheffield
Another bizarre Grok Korean translation involving Tomodachi Life 🫠
Despite Grok embarrassing the company on a global scale with sex-themed translations involving the game, no one has added a parameter to Grok that 친모아 (Chin-mo-a) does not mean stepmother, it means Tomodachi Life.
A 🧵 on what happened and why these translation fails are actually important...
#machinelearning #ai #grok #elonmusk
In conversationabout 4 hours ago from mastodon.socialpermalink
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1. A screenshot of an X post featuring a video capture of Tomodachi Life being played in Korean by user @binbotsundoku. The screenshot features a cutesy, female-appearing character with pink ponytails and red eyes wearing a schoolgirl uniform. Grok has translated the post text as: "While doing stepmom stuff, my period came."
  https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/942/638/727/355/888/original/fc8834aec4d78b9d.png
2. The same Tomodachi Life screenshot as in the first image but with the X user's post in the original Korean. It reads: "친모아 하다가 정병옴," or "Chinmoa hadaga jeongbyeong-om."
  https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/942/645/818/226/074/original/30651ed171b86305.png

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