“sync,corrected by elderman” issue in ML translation datasets spread on internet

I can&#x27;t find the true origin of this, but (unless I&#x27;m missing some old internet joke) it seems like some language models have some corrupt training data frequently including a string like &quot;== sync, corrected by elderman ==&quot;. Now searching for this phrase yields a ton of random results occurring in places where you would expect automatically translated spam. Some interesting mentions I found:<p>- it historically appeared in autotranslated game chats in Arena of Valor game <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;arenaofvalor&#x2F;comments&#x2F;btykru&#x2F;comment&#x2F;ep4o48c&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;arenaofvalor&#x2F;comments&#x2F;btykru&#x2F;commen...</a> - mention on GitHub repo of a translation model <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Helsinki-NLP&#x2F;Opus-MT&#x2F;issues&#x2F;62">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Helsinki-NLP&#x2F;Opus-MT&#x2F;issues&#x2F;62</a><p>I&#x27;m curious to see if anyone else has interesting encounters with this

i think that might&#x27;ve come from the rtfm.mit.edu FAQ archives, there were several documents there that had multiple language versions and were great bait for things needing translated text inputs.