Explaining further to Ars, Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt said:
There was a small bug in a test we ran that mistakenly caused the English-to-English translation(s) you saw. That bug has been resolved. Unsurprisingly, English-to-English translations are not part of our strategy, as they aren’t necessary. English-to-English translations were not a desired or expected outcome of the test.
Reddit pulled the test it was running, but its machine learning-powered translations are still functioning, Rathschmidt said. The company plans to fix the bug and run its unspecified “test” again.
Reddit’s explanation differs from user theories floating around beforehand, which were mainly that Reddit was rewriting user-created summaries with generative AI, possibly to
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