5d ago

I don't see the problem. It's A tree. It's not THE tree.

And has this guy never seen a chorse before?

(Okay, I got nothing after that one. Based on my limited knowledge of French, this is appears to be a terrible translation issue- tree = arbre, horse = cheval, house = maison.)

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I think that it's just a screenshot of on-screen translation (like Google Lens or whatever, you can def see the artefacts) of this:

(Caption is, naturally, compete bullshit)
- Before I zoomed in on the picture, my first thought is the letters supposed to represent their respective objects could have been in French words. A for arbre, b for balloon, and c for cheval.
  Yup, the OOP is really just milking for social media likes by faking the post.
  
  Yes, I had that thought too - as a learning tool/exercise for kids perhaps, but the use value would have been weird (in the sense that usually they well tell you to 'only speak that language' when you are learning it).
- Might even be AI translated, as the font is whack
- They used white out and then wrote the translated words in. It's obvious when you zoom in.
  
  The pictures have the same kind of artifacts though. This is AI upscaled at the very least.
- ok but how did google translate go from Yacht to Yote??? what is a Yote????
  
  Past tense of Yeet.

I bet is an Spanish books translated to English, 'cause:
Tree = Árbol
Horse = Caballo
Star = Estrella
And so on
- I thought the same because
  cow = vaca
  wheel = rueda
  fish = pes
  snow = nieve
  but in French
  cake = gâteau
  house = maison
  tail = queue
  monkey = singe
  bird = oiseau
  Note: For H, that seems to be an image of a propeller airplane, not a helicopter.
  
  okay thats great but can just one person please explain to me what a "Yote" is?? like they got that one tight Yote starts with Y but what is a Yote 😭
- Could be either Spanish or French based on those words, I guess. I'm not sure if any of the words in the picture don't start with the same letter in those languages (or maybe even other Romance languages).
  
  Nah, you're right, is french. There's no word in Spanish for Bird that star with O (the only Spanish words for bird are either Pájaro or Ave).
  But for french...
- Ah so one of these situations

OP, this is absolutely a Google Translate image of a French ABC book into English.
Arbre is tree
Cheval is horse
Etoille is star
Vache is cow
Gateau is cake
Roue is wheel
Edit: le typo
- Yup, found the original:
  
  That helicopter needs work.
  
  Helicoptere helicoptere
  Coffre à argent coffre à argent
- I was gonna guess Spanish until I got to cake 😂
  Arbol, Caballo, Estrella, etc.
- The text in the image is all wonky and full of artifacts, which had me wondering if it was made by AI.
  
  It's most likely upscaled. The pictures have the same artifacts.
- Arbre
  
  Sorry, my brain wrote it phonetically in gringospeak.
- but poisson is a mathematician so that does not add up
- I thought it was a Charlie horse and apple tree.
  
  Eric the star, Pete the fish...yep, that's it.
- Ah you're right, Google translate does that weird text thing.

Is it just me or are the images and text AI generated?
- It seems people are blind to AI now, seeing people having discussion over this AI slop makes it time to add "braindead society theory" to the already existing "dead internet theory"
  
  100%, the text was an instant giveaway and the disagreement makes me feel like I'm living in a Truman Show simulation sometimes. Also, the monkey is actually a nightmare creature and the tiger is straight from the Walking Dead.
- I think it's AI upscaling
  
  that's likely it yes
  
  Yeah. What kind of GenAI would be so shitty to render something with so many artifacts, yet coherent enough to render 24 words that perfectly map to their direct French translation? But somehow the pictures are half jumbled to the point that the picture of a tail looks like a circle? Which is the opposite way GenAI normally jumbles things, text is always the first to become undecipherable.
  The only way for this to be GenAI would be with close supervision, it's not impossible but at that point it would have been much less effort for a much better result to edit English text onto an actual French children's book.
  Anyway who gives a shit but the superior attitude of the people here who think they are so clever pisses me off lol
- It's Google Translate, from French I think.
  Tree= Arb Horse = Cheval Cow = vache
  I can't see the while thing while I comment, but I know a Translate image when I see it.
- very clearly yes
- People are discussing the word "horse" as if it's present in the image, but it's just some garbled shapes, not even letters, except for "h" and two "o"s. WTF?

Either the whole image is AI gen or someone used AI gen to make a childrens book.
I think its the former and the whole post is just bullshit.
- If it's AI generated, it's a hell of a coincidence that the letters all match the French words for those things.
  
  All the words are 100% generated unless someone went to the trouble of making a font that looks exactly like AI generated text. The pants under the book are also just nonsense blobs.
  
  It's probably in-place translation using AI for a French book
  
  It's AI. Look at the word that's supposed to be "Horse".
  
  My guess is that the pic is some instant translation app that tries to mimic the original font. The Google translate app has this feature where it replaced text with a translation in real time through the camera.
- The book is 1000% AI generated. The text and images are blurry mid journey nonsense. I mean, "helicopter" is a fucked up looking plane ffs.
  However, it would be a massive coincidence that all the words have a French translation that fits the letter. The OP could've done that intentionally, but that seems like a lot more effort for an AI generated post
  
  Given the perfect grid pattern and a certain kind of coherence this kind of ML doesn't usually preserve it's much more likely somebody cut and paste the individual images into an ML based image generator to repaint them with English text
  Stupid? Yes. They could have just taken the text alone into an LLM, or better yet regular translation program. But since when was the kind of people who blindly rely on ML smart?
- It looks to me like google translate text over an image of a French book. The text is garbled, but it's close enough and the words are accurately translated.
- The whole screenshot is AI upscaled. It's obvious if you zoom into the first emoji.
- I also believe it to be the former, however I love the idea of the latter as it would be a great example of how not to use image generation models.

Can we acknowledge how weird it is that the word they chose for U was "Universe". Seems a bit grandiose for a letter book for young children.
"A is for apple. B is for balloon. C is for THE COSMIC VOID OF INFINITE SPACE"
- M is for mesothelioma
- "H is for: Horrors beyond human comprehension"
- D is for dice, E is for elephant, F is for the fascists threatening our democracy
- B is for Bergen-Belsen
- Playing devil's advocate: Perhaps universe as in "look up, it's the stars"? I think it's plausible, many children in that age also know about astronauts and aliens already.

How are people not noticing this "book" is entirely AI generated with all the fucked up non-letters in the words?
- But Abazz said his mom bought that book. He wouldnt lie to me :(
- The book is real. I think someone tried to translate/upscale it with AI and that's why this looks so creepy.
- Because it isn't. They took the picture with the book on their lap, after covering the words with white out and writing the ones we see over it.
  
  Except there's no indication of whiteout (it's usually pretty obvious) and all the fucked up letters look exactly the same (such as e looking like an O with a dot inside.
  It's much more likely they just put the image into some AI thing to translate the words.

Ok, so assume it's French. The words now make sense. But, look at the pictures.
Does that look anything like a helicopter / hélicoptère? What does that pink round thing have to do with snow / neige? Why does the image for a tail / queue look like a radish? And what's with the letter for Y? Common Y words in french for kids are things like "yak", "yaourt" (yogurt), "yeux" (eyes), "yeti", "yacht", "yoga", "yo-yo". They seem to have chosen "yole", which in english is "yawl", defined as "a two-masted fore-and-aft-rigged sailboat with the mizzenmast stepped far aft so that the mizzen boom overhangs the stern." And yet, although the image appears to be a sailboat (voilier), it's a one-masted sailboat.
- This looks incredibly ai generated
  
  That's because it obviously is. Idk how people look at that book and think it was made by a human with the understanding of language.
  
  Because of the awful AI upscaling
  
  Because it is. If you zoom on the "Alphabetical" on the right the letters looks smushed together, same goes for the letters under Q and T.
  
  Looks like Google translate without proofreading.
  
  To me it looks like a genuine book with an instant "Google Translate using Camera" type layer overtop, that tries to translate the words into another language while matching the look and feel of the original.

That book is a translation nightmare...
Tree = árvore
Horse = cavalo
Vaca = cow
There are a lot more. Those are English to Portuguese translations and there are more. I'd risk the original language of the book is heavily Latin based.
- It's an image translated by an AI and used for internet points. Zoom in to the text to see why.
  
  Yeah, this is ai slop
- Can confirm these three also work in french and Spanish!
- Every single one works in French.
- Not sure if it's originally Portuguese, Spanish, or French but yeah, definitely seems like it was originally some romantic language originally and they just translated it one to one to English without considering the context.
  For example in Spanish, E for Estrella (star) makes sense.

Wtf is a “yote?”
- It's the past tense of yeet. Unless you're trying to be fancy and say "yotten" instead of course.
  
  Yeet, yote, have yotten. I believe that last one is the present perfect tense.
- Someone should have yote this in the trash.
- Yole in French is a small sailing boat. It's also in the English dictionary. A more common word would be skiff.
  
  Oh, that’s an “l” not a “t.” Huh, I guess reading without my glasses is harder than I thought.
- The two yotes…

This is AI though, or am I being whooshed
- I don't think it's AI. I think it's just an upscaling method that REALLY doesn't like text. I've seen it around on Lemmy often
  Edit: Yeah I found the original, it's just the upscaling. https://x.com/abazwhyllzz/status/1576904534416232449
  
  it fucks it up so much I'm pretty sure it's ai upscaling
- not sure if the book is AI or if there's AI uprezzing, check the letters in the microblog too.

Ah yes, P for Phish, classic kindergarten stuff
- POISSON

Yote is the past tense of yeet

it's probably translated from another language yeah, could be French or Spanish
Tree in French: Arbre; in Spanish: árbol
Horse in French: Cheval; in Spanish: caballo
for M it looks like it's French, house in Spanish is casa

HELLCOPTER

Gateau = cake

it checks out with french

G für Gadze

At least X is for xylophone.
Because X is always for xylophone.
- Shel Silverstein agrees.
- All X words sound like they begin with Z. X as a first letter is pointless, an imposter.