I posted last night to Blogger. This morning it showed up in NewsBlur with the content changed:
“whose honey are you?” => “Whose Honey Are You?”
“soured on” => “sad about”
Others I’m sure.
NewsBlur is not doing this, correct? It’s Google, prolly running my post through a @*&^#$^ “AI”, yes?
I’ve attached 2 screen shots, note the 5th & 6th words, 1st line, 2nd paragraph.
Yep NewsBlur is doing it. It’s a huge amount of work to compare stories and to find the diff. But it’s worth it!
To be clear, newsblur shows the diff between story changes but what you’re showing is not that interface exactly
??? Why would and how are they changing the content? That seems totally outside their responsibility.
So this is related to me editing and updating the post? At no point did that sentence ever say “sad about” ??? It always said “soured on”.
Try seeing if any of your Chrome extensions are affecting the content within Newsblur somehow by disabling them and then re-enabling them one by one?
I added your site to my list of feeds and it looks exactly the same as the source blog post.
If Newsblur itself had detected changes, you’d expect to see a button at the top of the article which doesn’t appear for me so that’d suggest the changes are perhaps just local to your browser
The French Word of the Day Site appears to be getting messed up often - maybe always now? The site is french, then english, it’s showing up in NewsBlur all in english, as if the french is being automatically translated.
I can make no sense out of Samuel Clay’s responses above. NewsBlur should be doing 0 editing of content IMO. & if there’s an LLM involved, I will have to start looking for a new reader, which I really don’t want to do.
Have you taken a look at your extensions and browser settings as Marcus suggested?
There is a google translate icon in your address bar, it might be translating the French and other words.
I added the French word of the day feed and no it’s correct here.
The reason Samuels response doesn’t make sense is he seem to have misunderstood your question and is talking about a feature where Newsblur will display changes/updates that has happened to a feed item.
I removed all extensions except for AdBlock Plus, DuckDuckGo safety, & Kagi Search. I turned off google translate, although it should have been prompting me to translate. But I am using a Apple wi-fi track pad which seems prone to generating spurious clicks.
I still want to know, in my original ticket, how “whose honey are you?” got turned into “Whose Honey Are You?” (probably something to do with the ?), but more importantly, how “soured on” got turned into “sad about”, which made the sentence nonsensical.
I don’t really use chrome or auto translations so can’t tell you exactly how, but I know you can set it always translate specific languages.
Translating English to English would of course be stupid, but what I suspect happened is that you first read a article including French (or something that Google thought looked French) and from that point it kept running French to English translation.
If we take the article from your original post and throw it in to Google translate asking for French to English we get the exact changes you noted.
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Wow, incredible! Thanks for the top-notch detective work! I would never have suspected Google translate going English to English. I will go back & make sure I have burned out Google translate. I guess the French word of the day page was the clue.
Also, I am relieved that probably all of my many (joke) subscribers would have received the post correctly.
Thanks again, kudos,
Chris Heinz
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Wow who would have thought!