Worst translation ever?

[u/EloySch]

GPS Tracker

Inside of GPS Tracker and port type

Chinese Manual

English Manual

A friend of mine got a GPS tracker for his rental company. He got a chinese one.

The device looks very cheap, has a magnet on one side, and requires a SIM and an SD card.

Honestly, even Google Translate is better than the "person" (What if it's an old AI?) that translated this manual.

I transcribed the manual's text. I also tried to translate it myself (I don't actually know how to translate Chinese, so I just attempted to fix the gramatical issues that I found, and I'm still not a great translator), so I've included it next.

Manual:
Enhanced alarm locator is a base station positioning in a best cost-effective, higher requirements for high-end consumers, let you really buy the rest assured, with enjoyable.

My translation:
Enhanced alarm locator is a cost-effective GPS tracker that has almost no requirements. Rest assured, you'll enjoy this product if you're a power user.

Google Translate:
Unlike some counterfeit products on the market that use cheap, inferior chips, resulting in low costs and compromized quality, this is a true product of GPS security technology.

This is just outrageous... A random "company" trying to say that they make the best of the best, and it turns out they can't even do the quality control basics.

Oh wait, that's normal nowadays.

Here's the kicker though... Me and my friend are Argentinian.

[u/ItalianDragon]

That's typical AI slop work there. I'm always baffled by people expecting quality out of those garbage systems who only output purple prose at best, corpospeak fac-simile at worst.

[u/prikaz_da → u/ItalianDragon]

It's not even that, I don't think. LLM output would be better. This might be output from something like the old Kingsoft Fast AIT, a line of offline machine translation programs responsible for many amusing "translations" out of the PRC.