Reddit bug caused lesbian subreddit to be labeled as a place for “straight” women

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…