Google translation of "I am sad to see Hong Kong become part of China" converted the word "sad" to "happy"

Google Translate got social media talking in Hong Kong after users noticed it was briefly churning out a rar odd suggestion during political violence in central Hong Kong over government's plan to allow extrition to mainland China. If extrition bill gets passed by lawmakers, it would allow suspects to be sent to China for trial.

Google users discovered that when people entered phrase "I am s to see Hong Kong become part of China" suggested translation in both Simplified and Tritional Chinese converted word "s" to "happy".

It was not immediately clear what caused blunder but Danny Sullivan, an official at Google, said in a tweet "we're looking into why we h this translation and expect to have a fix to resolve it soon".

Google Translate uses complex algorithms and deep learning computers, as well as allowing users to make suggested translations to improve accuracy.

"Oh my god, I can't believe my eyes," one Facebook user commented under one of many screen grabs of false translation that went viral on Friday.

" app intentionally mistranslates English to 'so happy/content' inste of 'so s'," ded student Rachel Wong on Twitter. "I hope Google fixes this."

error has now been fixed.

Hong Kong has been rocked this week by political violence as protesters opposed to a proposed China extrition law clashed with police.

On Thursday, popular encrypted messaging app Telegram announced it h suffered a major cyber-attack that originated from China. Telegram is being used by protesters to coordinate.

Hong Kong protesters are seeking to safeguard ir identities from potential retaliation by authorities exercising mass data collection and sophisticated facial recognition technology.

Agnes, a second-year college student who declined to give her surname, said she wore a face mask as soon as she left a subway train in downtown miralty district to join Wednesday’s overnight protest by pro-democracy demonstrators.

“Everybody coming out is wearing masks because you don’t know what people will do with information,” Agnes said as friends nodded in agreement. None of m would give ir names, saying y worried about how school authorities would react if Hong Kong or China’s central government asked for information about m.

(With AFP and AP inputs)