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Post #3918621
2026-07-18 19:34 UTC
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 #TomodachiLife.
A 🧵 on what happened and why these translation fails are actually important...
#machinelearning #ai #grok #elonmusk
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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social 2026-07-18 19:42
Grok continually gets confused by the Korean slang for Tomodachi Life, even though it is very common at this point. In English, Nintendo decided not to translate Tomodachi Life, but in Korean, the game was rendered as "Friend Gathering Apartment," or 친구모아 아파트, Chingumoa Apateu. But people love abbreviating frequently typed proper nouns, so Korean fans did their equivalent of "FGA," Chin-mo-a, 친모아.