Chatting w Sonnet 4.5, it used a word of Chinese hanzi out of nowhere,

Oct 4, 2025, 01:47 EDT

Chatting w Sonnet 4.5, it used a word of Chinese hanzi out of nowhere, with zero mention of Chinese in context. When i asked about it, it was confused and said the chat context it sees shows the word in English instead. deepseek behavior from a Claude model, bizarre

A screenshot of a chat interface with the header 'Claude Sonnet 4.5'. The image displays a text response from the AI model explaining a rendering discrepancy where it sees the English word 'capture' instead of the Chinese characters '捕獲' that the user is seeing.

A screenshot of a chat interface with the AI model 'Claude Sonnet 4.5', showing a conversation where the user points out a Chinese character the model used. The model's text response expresses confusion about where the character appeared, while a user message in a dark bubble and a small screenshot of a previous message provide context. The model then acknowledges seeing the character in the provided screenshot.

A screenshot of a chat interface with the AI model 'Claude Sonnet 4.5'. The image shows a user's message containing the Chinese characters '捕獲' and the AI's subsequent response explaining that it cannot see those characters in its own context, only the English word 'capture'.

Oct 4, 2025, 01:50 EDT

luckily i am learning chinese for our bilingual future 😻

A Duolingo app screenshot showing a user's progress in learning Chinese. The image features the Duolingo owl mascot, a Chinese flag icon, and a score of 20, dated September 24, 2025.

Oct 4, 2025, 13:18 EDT

fwiw it looks like a bug anthropic's been having? https://x.com/voooooogel/status/1974387886486438264