ChatGPT does a decent job answering questions in Chinese, which is why it’s widely used in China despite being blocked
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A more generous translation could be, “I’ll hold you steadily through whatever comes.” But to any native Chinese speaker, the expression is annoyingly affectionate and out of place.
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Zeng Fanyu, a 20-year-old developer from Chongqing, China, tells WIRED the meme inspired him to develop an April Fools’ project called Jiezhu, or “catch” in Chinese
Are you even online in 2026 if you haven’t experienced the verbal tics of ChatGPT
The phenomenon where models latch onto a specific phrase and overuse them to the point that they feel forced is called “mode collapse,” says Max Spero, cofounder and CEO of Pangram, an AI writing
We don't know how to say: ‘This is good writing, but if we do this good writing thing 10 times, then it's no longer good writing,’” Spero says
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Are you even online in 2026 if you haven’t experienced the verbal tics of ChatGPT? ChatGPT does a decent job answering questions in Chinese, which is why it’s widely used in China despite being blocked by the government. Today, this sentence is the most prominent example of many verbal tics that OpenAI’s models have exhibited when talking to people in Chinese. The phenomenon where models latch onto a specific phrase and overuse them to the point that they feel forced is called “mode collapse,” says Max Spero, cofounder and CEO of Pangram, an AI writing detection tool.