I asked Mistral to translate a Japanese government land price report into Dutch.
It didn't translate. It fabricated. Every Japanese reference was silently replaced with a Dutch equivalent: Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya became Randstad, Amsterdam, Utrecht. The Japanese Ministry of Land became the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure. Hokkaido and Nagano resorts became Zeeland and the Veluwe. Ginza, Tokyo became the Amsterdamse Zuidas. Foreign buyers in Japan became foreign buyers in the Netherlands.
The AI wrote a completely fictional Dutch economic report and presented it as a translation. Statistics, locations, market analysis -- all invented. All plausible. All wrong. A monolingual Dutch reader would never catch it. The output reads like a perfectly normal news article. Only someone who reads both Japanese and Dutch would notice that the entire article is about a different country.