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It’s been proven to be round for years, yet many people still believe that Earth is flat.
These so-called ‘Flat Earthers’ have come up with a range of weird and wonderful theories, in the hopes of proving that our planet isn’t spherical.
Now, a hilarious error has seen Google Translate accidentally troll these believers.
A user on Reddit discovered that if you ask Google Translate to translate the sentence ‘I am a Flat Earther' from English to French, the system will respond with ‘Je suis un fou.'
French speakers among you will know that this translates back into English as ‘I’m a crazy person.’
Speaking to thetelegraff , a Google spokesperson explained that this was an ‘error.’
They said: “Translate works by learning patterns from many millions of examples of translations seen out on the web.