alt Hacker NewsWhat has been going on with deepseek recently? I have gotten lots of replies in Chinese and even more frequently, reasoning in Chinese as well.
Is it a new silent update?
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Well, it is a Chinese model, maybe it thinks better in Chinese?
Maybe, you could pipe it through T5 or something.
it's a hint that you should start learning the new Lingua Franca.
This happens to me a lot when I ask a qwen3.6 model to respond to a question in JSON. No clue why.
I use DeepSeek daily, never happened to me.
I use the API however, not the chat interface.
It doesn’t seem that recent to me, at least been like that for six months.
yes, kind of silent update plus they might have better chinese datasets and user data for their training, that might be leading to chinese preference.
Are you running out of context? I’ve found that tooling and giberish most of the time happens when I’m butting up against the high watermark of my context window. One other thing it could be, I’ve read that lower quanta like Q1 and Q2 for smaller models can leak Chinese
It never happened to me with Deepseek, but it happened multiple times with Kimi 2.6.
It also happened a handful of times with Anthropic models.
Happened to me with Claude, doesn't need to be a China thing.