{"id":545996,"date":"2026-03-19T04:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T04:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/545996\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T04:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T04:20:09","slug":"kagi-translates-ai-answers-the-question-what-would-horny-margaret-thatcher-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/545996\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagi Translate’s AI answers the question “What would horny Margaret Thatcher say?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019ve been using the Internet for any length of time, you\u2019ve probably used a tool like Google Translate to convert webpages or snippets of text to and from languages ranging from Uzbek to Esperanto. But what if you want to translate into more esoteric \u201clanguages\u201d like \u201cLinkedIn Speak,\u201d<\/a> \u201cGen Z slang,\u201d<\/a> or \u201chorny Margaret Thatcher\u201d<\/a>?<\/p>\n

This week, many people across the Internet have been bemused to find that the AI-powered Kagi Translate<\/a> can perform these and countless other unlikely \u201ctranslation\u201d tasks. And while the collective discovery highlights the playful, creative side of large language models, it also exposes the risks of letting users play with generalized LLM tools.<\/p>\n

What is a \u201clanguage,\u201d really?<\/p>\n

While you might know Kagi best as the paid competitor to Google\u2019s ever-worsening search product<\/a>, the company launched its Kagi Translate tool back in 2024<\/a>, saying at the time that it was a \u201csimply better\u201d competitor to tools like Google Translate and DeepL<\/a>. At launch, the company said Kagi Translate \u201cuses a combination of LLMs, selecting and optimizing the best output for each task,\u201d a fact that \u201ccan occasionally lead to quirks that we\u2019re actively working to resolve.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first versions of the tool<\/a> featured simple dropdown menus to choose from 244 different languages for the source and target of the translation. In February 2025, though, at least one unheralded Hacker News poster<\/a> noticed that you could play with the URL parameters to set the target language to \u201crude man with a Boston accent\u201d without breaking anything.<\/p>\n


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An HN user noticed the more amusing uses of Kagi Translate over a year ago, to little fanfare.<\/p>\n

An HN user noticed the more amusing uses of Kagi Translate over a year ago, to little fanfare.<\/p>\n

Credit:<\/p>\n

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Hacker News<\/p>\n

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In recent weeks, Kagi\u2019s own social media account has highlighted the service\u2019s ability to imitate \u201cReddit Speak\u201d<\/a> or generate McKinsey consultant speak<\/a> with a few clicks on Kagi Translate. Early Tuesday morning, though, these unorthodox use cases broke containment after a Hacker News user delighted in reporting<\/a> that \u201cKagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language.\u201d Further down in that popular HN thread, other users noticed<\/a> that you can alter the output language just by typing into the search bar of Kagi Translate\u2019s web interface, and the tool\u2019s underlying AI would do its best to accommodate you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019ve been using the Internet for any length of time, you\u2019ve probably used a tool like Google…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-545996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}