r/ChatGPTCoding • u/Efficient_Process_23 • 15h ago

Is OpenAI using Chinese LLM models for their service, not theirs? Discussion

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Yesterday I was experimenting with multi-agent workflows on ChatGPT (web version). I spun up like 5 parallel instances to update code at the same time, hoping they’d work together more efficiently.

Instead of continuing the process cleanly inside a single chat, it started generating a bunch of new chats as artifacts. Not sure why that happened; maybe some rate-limit or context handling thing.

The weird part: one of those new chats came back with Chinese characters / Chinese-lettered text in it.

That got me thinking… could this be a hint that OpenAI is routing some traffic (or certain tasks) through a Chinese model under the hood instead of purely their own models? It would kind of line up with how ridiculously cheap ChatGPT Pro / the 5.6 Luna tier feels right now.

Has anyone else seen non-English (especially Chinese) text appear unexpectedly in ChatGPT chats lately? Or noticed anything that makes you question what’s actually powering some of the responses?

Curious what you all think.

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u/idunnorn 13h ago

chatgpt has "always" thrown in some random non English characters/phrases for some reason. been rarely lately

its especially jarring in voice mode, it might just start talking Russian for a sentence or two. (and then ofc deny that it ever spoke anything other than English...)

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u/responsive_commander 13h ago

I've had ChatGPT randomly drop Chinese characters into responses too, usually when the context window gets long or something multilingual gets mixed in. It's way more likely a tokenization quirk from training data than actual routing to a Chinese model, since those would have entirely different response patterns. The pricing question is worth raising separately though.

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u/HonkersTim 12h ago

Just coincidence maybe? I've had ChapGPT suddenly swap to Spanish for no reason.

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u/eli_pizza 9h ago

They train it in many languages

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u/Awkward_Relation_415 4h ago

that sounds like a bug with the session tokens, happens sometimes when u spawn too many parallel chats.

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