# Highly intrusive and undisclosed Auto-Translation

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/highly-intrusive-and-undisclosed-auto-translation/386985
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** translation, ai, content-localization
**Created:** [October 28, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/highly-intrusive-and-undisclosed-auto-translation/386985 "2025-10-28T19:14:42Z")
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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2025, 7:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/highly-intrusive-and-undisclosed-auto-translation/386985/3 "2025-10-28T19:37:06Z")

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> [@Ethaphu](#):
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> I am not sure if this is an issue with Roblox Devforum’s implementation of it or Discourse in general

I’m not familiar with their approach, so for the rest of the post I’ll assume they are early adopters of our new content localization feature.

> [@Ethaphu](#):
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> Every post is autotranslated with no signaling that its a translation and not the original post.

We add multiple indicators of translation

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/f/8/4/f84afa9b4626b6090f4ea011bce80cd411fda7a3.jpeg)

> [@Ethaphu](#):
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> If it weren’t for the stiffness and inaccuracy of the machine-translation, I wouldn’t be sure if im reading a post actually written in the language im reading, or if its an AI slop rendition of it. It can get very misleading.

Admins can pick their preferred LLM model for translation, as well as leave translations to only happen manually via users too.

> [@Ethaphu](#):
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> The only way for me to get original content that was made in english, is if I LOG IN to an account

There is a single click button to swap between original and translated

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