SEOUL \u2013 \u201cRoger, roll, pitch,\u201d said mission control during NASA\u2019s Artemis II mission, streamed live to millions around the world.<\/p>\n
But for some South Koreans watching it in real time on the KBS TV YouTube channel, the phrase took on an entirely different meaning.<\/p>\n
The AI-generated subtitles failed to grasp the aerospace context, misinterpreting \u201cpitch\u201d as an English expletive beginning with the letter B and then rendering its Korean equivalent.<\/p>\n
The incident quickly sparked backlash, with some users stressing the importance of reviewing AI-generated translations.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven if it was automated translation, it should have undergone at least basic review. It calls the broadcaster\u2019s professionalism into question,\u201d one user wrote on X.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis case shows why a human in the loop is essential, no matter how advanced AI translation becomes,\u201d another commented.<\/p>\n
Amid growing criticism, KBS issued an apology on YouTube.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are working with relevant departments to explore measures to better identify and block offensive language in AI-generated captions,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
The controversial caption has been removed from the recorded livestream on KBS\u2019 YouTube channel, with \u201cRoger, roll, pitch\u201d now presented in Korean phonetic form.<\/p>\n
In aerospace communications, \u201croger\u201d signals receipt of a message, while \u201croll\u201d and \u201cpitch\u201d describe orientation adjustments made by a rocket after lift-off.<\/p>\n
The vehicle first rolls partially around its longitudinal axis, then pitches by tilting its nose down along its lateral axis, allowing it to continue accelerating horizontally.<\/p>\n
As the first crewed lunar mission in 54 years since Apollo 17, the Artemis II Orion capsule carrying four astronauts launched from Kennedy Space Center at 6.35pm on April <\/a>1<\/a> local time (6.35am, April 2, Singapore time).<\/p>\n The spacecraft will orbit Earth before approaching the Moon to within about 6,500km of its surface, completing a roughly 10-day mission before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego. THE KOREA HERALD\/ASIA NEWS NETWORK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEOUL \u2013 \u201cRoger, roll, pitch,\u201d said mission control during NASA\u2019s Artemis II mission, streamed live to millions around…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-374536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}