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I had a totally benign chat with OpenAI and it titled it as “amateur porn” in Chinese characters, it was very alarmed when I pointed the conversation name out to it. It almost never misses these days, but when it does the failure modes are very strange.
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I remember getting a bunch of „Thanks for watching! Subscribe and smash that like button“ in the middle of chat sessions a few times (like, more than 3 times over the past 3y)
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It kind of makes sense when you think about it. If the training data is YouTube transcripts, people often abruptly switch from content to asking for a subscription.

If AI is typeahead on crack, then this tracks.

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If you ever look at what's in the Common Crawl the amount of Chinese porn crap is jarring.
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Got Russian from it once. As a child of the '80s I jumped right on it, but the explanation seemed believable.

Still sleeping with one eye open.

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A Hindi word in the middle of a normal reply for me (but once I translated the word it was right in context heh)
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This used to happen a lot with GPT 5.4. It would start outputting entire sentences in Korean for no apparent reason.
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People that know multiple languages sometimes code switch too funnily enough
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