What do you expect when you are looking for a good translator site on the internet? Recently, the website "Baidu Translate" is embroiled in a high profile concern when it revealed several sensitive translations of words that may seem meaningless and simple.

According to The Wall Street Journal, people who use this translation tool may soon learn more than what they are willing to know because of the site's straightforward description of every word inquired.

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In a report made on Friday about the issue, Baidu Translate put out several results that irked some of its viewers when it made a description of "Chiang Kai - Shek" to a "corrupt dictator and historic loser," "Freedon of Speech" to "anyone who exercises their freedom of speech will be jailed," "Political Rights" to "students don't learn about political rights and they are taught not to question political authority" and "America" to "Europe and America now face extraordinarily difficult politics." While the translation of such simple words were maliciously translated to the country's political beliefs, this is not the first time the said website encountered such scandal.

Kaiser Kuo, Baidu's director of international communications, denied that they were personal insinuations, but rather, the search tool was merely the result of a machine power. He also said, "The example sentences provided on Baidu Translate aren't selected by hand, as it were; that would be an impossibly large editorial task. They are drawn automatically from around the web, often from translation-focused websites."

Andrew Ng, Baidu's research agenda director stressed out that the internet in China is very different from that of the United States. He explained that the United States have several websites that they can use as resources on their links, whereas, in China, they have to create these website links themselves because there is a possibility that their referred website does not exist.

According to Fusion, the greatest thing that affect such websites are the research prototypes that they are still trying to develop until today.

While Baidu Translate does not retaliate all of its words, there are those few chosen ones that reveal their strong thoughts about the country's political stand.

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