ChatGPT Has ‘Goblin’ Mania in the US. In China It Will ‘Catch You Steadily’
2026-05-07 · WIRED
OpenAI's ChatGPT has developed bizarre linguistic tics in Chinese that are driving users up the wall — because apparently breaking one language at a time wasn't ambitious enough. The chatbot keeps inserting weird phrases and patterns that make it sound like it's having a minor stroke in Mandarin. Another day, another reminder that 'multilingual support' means 'we'll annoy users in multiple languages simultaneously.'