I knew somebody was going to make a video out of this storyline.

And of course somebody did.

Basically:

Infernal Affairs: Malaysian Politics Edition.

So I asked Grok to translate the video into English. Some friends were asking for the translation. I was lazy to do it myself so I asked Grok lah. 

Simple enough.

Except it translated the Chinese political subtitles instead of the actual spoken audio.

Fair enough. Easy mistake.

Then I asked it to translate the voice.

That was when things became hilarious.

The audio is the original Cantonese from Infernal Affairs.

One small problem.

The audio in this particular video is Mandarin.

So I told it.

And Grok doubled down.

Then doubled down again.

Apparently the audio was definitely Cantonese because the lip movements matched the original movie dialogue.

🤣🤣🤣

At this point I was no longer asking AI for a translation.

I was arguing with an uncle at a kopitiam who had already decided he was correct and would rather die than admit otherwise.

So I gave the same video to ChatGPT and specifically said:

Use the audio for translation.

This time it picked up the actual political parody dialogue.

The funny part is not even which AI got it right or wrong.

It is the confidence.

Not:

“I think this might be Cantonese.”

But:

THE AUDIO IS CANTONESE.

Case closed.

Everybody go home.

🤣🤣🤣

Maybe AI really has achieved human-level intelligence after all.

Not because it can code.

Not because it can pass exams.

But because it has finally mastered one of humanity’s greatest skills:

Being completely wrong and refusing to admit it. 

Welcome to civilisation, machine.

You’ll fit right in.

P/S: Somewhere inside Grok’s silicon brain it is probably still insisting the audio is Cantonese.

P/P/S: Before anybody starts another argument — yes, I KNOW the original Infernal Affairs scene is in Cantonese. That was exactly the bloody point.

P/P/P/S: Original scene here if anyone is interested. It is the rooftop meeting between Chan Wing-yan (Tony Leung) and SP Wong (Anthony Wong), where Wong asks whether Yan has forgotten he is a cop, and Yan complains that the “three-year” undercover assignment kept being extended until it was nearly ten years. The key Cantonese line is the famous: “三年之後又三年……十年都嚟緊頭啦，老細！” roughly: “Three years, then another three years… it’s almost ten years already, boss!”

Watch the original Infernal Affairs rooftop scene on YouTube