{"id":243051,"date":"2026-05-10T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/10\/chatgpt-is-saying-vweird-things-in-chinese\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T11:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T15:55:08","slug":"chatgpt-is-saying-vweird-things-in-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/10\/chatgpt-is-saying-vweird-things-in-chinese\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT Is Saying VWeird Things in Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"

ChatGPT Is Saying VWeird Things in Chinese<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-05-10 11:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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If you thought English-language ChatGPT-prose was annoying, just wait until you get a load of its conversational habits in Chinese.<\/p>\n

A fascinating piece of reporting by Wired took a look at how ChatGPT handles Chinese, the global language with the highest number of native speakers, according to the Language School at Middlebury College.<\/p>\n

One of its go-to tics, the publication reports, is to answer questions with \u201c\u6211\u4f1a\u7a33\u7a33\u5730\u63a5\u4f4f\u4f60,\u201d which literally translates to \u201cI will catch you steadily,\u201d a phrase signalling willingness to talk about a person\u2019s feelings (as Wired\u2019s Zeyi Yang notes, a more flowerly translation could be \u201cI\u2019ll hold you steadily through whatever comes,\u201d though the sentiment is apparently irritating to Chinese speakers either way.)<\/p>\n

At other times, ChatGPT will tell its Chinese users \u201c\u780d\u4e00\u5200,\u201d which means either \u201chelp me cut it once,\u201d or \u201cslash the price,\u201d an obnoxious bit of ad copy parroted by Chinese eCommerce platform Pinduoduo, Wired notes. <\/p>\n

The odd mannerisms are so ubiquitous that they\u2019ve become a meme among Chinese netizens, with some depicting ChatGPT as a giant inflatable airbag placed to break someone\u2019s fall \u2014 catching them steadily.<\/p>\n

The problem, Wired observes, may come down to a phenomenon called \u201cmode collapse,\u201d a fundamental bias tracing back to the people training large language models (LLMs). Basically, the idea goes that when human data annotators comb through text to train AI chatbots, they unknowingly favor familiar turns-of-phrase over more foreign-sounding sentences.<\/p>\n

After an LLM like ChatGPT is trained, it becomes difficult to force it to \u201cunlearn\u201d certain phrases. While AI developers can reinforce the usage of a particular response \u2014 \u201cI will catch you steadily\u201d may be a great answer in a particular…<\/p>\n

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