Random Chinese spam-like text appearing as automatically generated ChatGPT chat titles
I am seeing strange Chinese text appear as chat titles in ChatGPT.
My normal conversation language is Russian, and the affected conversations were also ordinary Russian-language chats. The generated Chinese titles appear unrelated to the actual conversation content.
Examples I have seen on August 25, 2026:
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天天中彩票大神推荐 -
马会 -
级特黄大片 -
马会RGCtx
These do not look like normal translations of the conversations.
Some of them appear to contain gambling / horse-racing terminology, while another appears to contain adult/spam-like terminology. 马会 also appeared more than once.
Expected behavior
Automatically generated chat titles should describe the conversation and normally follow the language/context of the chat.
Actual behavior
Some chats receive apparently unrelated Chinese text instead. In several cases the text resembles Chinese web-spam terminology rather than a meaningful summary of the conversation.
Important detail
I noticed the corrupted titles after they had already been generated, so I can no longer reliably identify which exact conversation corresponded to each Chinese title or what its previous title was.
However, this happened repeatedly across multiple chats within a short period, while my normal ChatGPT usage and conversations are in Russian.
Environment
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ChatGPT Web
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Desktop
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Windows 10
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Chrome
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ChatGPT Plus
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Observed: August 25, 2026
This may be related to other recent reports about unexpected Chinese or other foreign-language text appearing in automatically generated ChatGPT titles.