Cybersecurity experts are calling for Taiwan to build its own AI translation tools modeled on Mandarin used in Taiwan. That's after an auto-translate glitch led to terms from China appearing on Taiwan's government websites, sparking fears they had been hacked.
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00:00Cyber security experts are calling on Taiwan to build its own AI translation tool after
00:06auto-translate errors on government websites mistakenly displayed terms used in China.
00:12Users were alarmed when sites mentioned the anniversary of the founding of the People's
00:17Republic of China and China's term for its own defense ministry, sparking fears of a
00:22hack.
00:23Officials say it was a Google Chrome translation glitch, not a cyber attack.
00:28Similar errors recently named Taipei's police website as the Beijing Police Department.
00:34Taiwan has asked Google to fix the issue.
00:36Cyber security experts say Taiwan needs its own local translation tools as most models
00:41use software based on Mandarin from China.