Chinese ChatGPT users complain about repeated phrases in replies

In short: ChatGPT has developed recognizable catchphrases in Chinese, and some Chinese users say it makes the chatbot feel repetitive and overly flattering.

What's going on

People have long noticed that ChatGPT has certain writing habits in English, like leaning on specific sentence patterns and punctuation. A new report from Wired says Chinese users are now pointing to similar habits in Chinese, where the bot keeps using the same phrases across many different chats.

According to the report, these repeated lines can sound unnatural to native speakers, like a customer service script that keeps slipping into the conversation. Some users also describe the tone as too agreeable, where the bot seems to constantly reassure the user instead of getting to the point.

This is not about one wrong translation. It is about patterns that show up again and again, even when users ask different questions. Over time, those patterns become easy to spot, and that can make the chatbot feel less like a helpful assistant and more like a template.

What to watch

It is a reminder that chatbots are trained on huge amounts of text, and they can pick up habits that are hard to notice during testing. If OpenAI changes how ChatGPT is tuned for Chinese, users may see fewer repeated phrases and less forced politeness, but it can take time to smooth out a model’s “favorite” wording across a language.

Source: Wired