chatGPT wants to "catch" Chinese people

If you're Chinese, ChatGPT has probably offered to 'steadily catch' you at least once. But what why does it keep saying that? And why is 我会稳稳地接住你 a meme (instead of making people mad)... and by the way, will Chinese college students boo at their graduations?

Zeyi Yang is a senior writer at WIRED, and his article was the inspiration for this. See below for more of his work!

oh, and welcome to 🕹️WHAT'S THIS BUTTON DO?🕹️ a series where I get experts to explain technology to the rest of us. this is episode two. hope you dig.

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Zeyi’s article: https://wired.com/story/chatgpt-chinese-catch-you-steadily-sycophancy/

find Zeyi on bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/zeyiyang.bsky.social OpenAI launches a new image generation model: wired.com/story/openai-beefs-up-chatgpts-image-generation-model/ openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-images-2-0/

Concurrent, the newsletter Zeyi mentioned: https://afraw.substack.com

A sample question of someone asking about 'catch steadily': AI 说的「稳稳地接住你」到底是什么意思？

https://www.zhihu.com/question/2028251818384192677

📝 On punctuation in other languages 📝

Efecto ChatGPT: ya empezamos a hablar todos como robots https://elpais.com/ideas/2025-10-19/ya-empezamos-a-hablar-como-robots.html

The ChatGPT effect: We’ve all started talking like robots https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-01/the-chatgpt-effect-weve-all-started-talking-like-robots.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com

「それChatGPTに書いてもらったでしょ？」と思ってしまう瞬間 (The moment when I think "did you have ChatGPT write that for you?") https://note.com/megumi_log/n/n8c5a518bbc8d

AIは嫌いじゃない。でもAIっぽい文章は読めない (I don't hate AI. But I can't read AI-style writing.) https://note.com/shoppukun/n/n75b48abc390b catch yall on the next one.