Meta apologises, says AI constantly learning as Karnataka CM flags translation flaw on Facebook

Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, on Thursday issued an apology over incorrect translation of Kannada into English on its platforms, after it was flagged by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of Karnataka.

“We fixed an issue that briefly caused this inaccurate Kannada translation. We apologize that this happened,” a Meta spokesperson said. And the company also communicated that “AI models, in this case our machine translation model, provided a machine translation error” on Facebook.