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This is making the rounds on Finnish social media.

A large association for Finnish construction companies, #Rakennusteollisuus, decided that they needed an English version of their website but apparently they didn't want to pay an actual #translator so just used some free #LLM with hilarious results.

They've fixed it now, but for a short while there was some comedy gold to be found.

P.s. I didn't find these, I've no idea who did.

Contact info of the executive director, but her name is "Fairytale Alajärvi". Her actual name "Satu" means "fairytale".
Portrait of their labour market manager, but her name says "I was Tiina", her actual name is Tiina Olin. "Olin" can mean "I was" but in the surname context it's a swedish surname which doesn't have that meaning at all, and it is pronounced differently.
Contact info of a CEO for some smaller association, her actual name is Sini Laine, but the LLM translated that into "The Blue Wave". Maybe it's her superhero name, but maybe it's just a stupid direct translation by the LLM like the other examples. "Sini" means "blue" or "of blue tint", and "Laine" means a certain type of calm wave.
Contact info of an expert named SpongeBob Mattila whose actual name is Paavo Mattila. The Finnish version of SpongeBob SquarePants is Paavo Pesusieni (essentially Paavo the sponge).
#translator #llm #rakennusteollisuus
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