ChatGPT Has 'Goblin' Mania in the US. In China It Will 'Catch You Steadily'

OpenAI's chatbot has some weird linguistic tics in Chinese that are driving users crazy. Are you even online in 2026 if you haven't experienced the verbal tics of ChatGPT? It loves goblins, em dashes, and "it's not A; it's B" sentence constructions. But what you might not know is that the chatbot also has plenty of strange phrases it loves to say in Chinese, and they are driving Chinese users crazy. ChatGPT does a decent job answering questions in Chinese, which is why it's widely used in China despite being blocked by the government.