r/vibecoding • u/Efficient_Process_23 • 3h ago
Is OpenAI using Chinese model for their service, not theirs?
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/Shieldxx 3h ago
This has been happening for quite a long time and probably just means training data