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Comment by Tomte

4 hours ago

If only they managed to tell the mobile app to tell the model to reply in English to English prompts.

I suffix everything with "Reply in English", and even so I‘m getting lots of Chinese.

I think their system prompt is in Chinese and probably has instructions to prioritize answering in Chinese, since this has never happened to me via API, where I (or the coding harness) set the system prompt.

I'm starting to have chinese characters bleed into claude as well. Perhaps a sign of the times. Understanable for a chinese first model but an english first (supposedly) model? wild stuff.

  • I also love the gaslighting of some models, like ChatGPT mixing in words with cyrillic letters and when asked about it answers: "it can look as Slavic to the eye" and "sorry that it came across as Russian"

Yes, this is one of the few issues with Deepseek; their chat pages and the app all respond in Chinese. However, i think i have only had it happen once when using the API, and im using it for hours each day for the last... couple of months?

  • last couple of weeks, before they've unified instant and expert the former always replied in chinese unless steered, expert was by default english

nothing to do with mobile app, I have same issues while using it on desktop browser, it will never remember to use English permanently, even within one conversation