GPT Chinese Translation Shift: Token Translated as '词元'
xiaohu · x · 2026-07-15
A prominent user complained about a sudden shift in GPT's Chinese translation mechanism, awkwardly translating the traditionally retained English term "Token" directly into "词元". This machine-translation feel ruins the reading experience and has sparked discussions about Chinese corpus contamination and localization strategies in large models.
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