Chat GPT 5.2 cannot explain the German word "geschniegelt"(old.reddit.com)

47 pointsby doener2 hours ago6 comments

WatchDog14 minutes ago
I tried this in chatgpt, asking " geschniegelt" on a 5.2 instant temp chat, and got some interesting results.
Sometimes it would reply with the correct definition of geschniegelt, the description would sometimes be in German, sometimes in English.
Most of the time it would give me a definition for a different German word "Geil".
For whatever reason, the most interesting results I got were via my work's m365 copilot interface, where it would give me random word descriptions in Hebrew[0] and Arabic[1].
[0]: https://pastebin.com/raw/h108gr9t
[1]: https://pastebin.com/raw/BFAbtVQN
- senectus1a minute ago
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joaomacp2 hours ago
Maybe it's getting confused by the expression "geschniegelt und gestriegelt", seeing both as geschniegelt and getting confused
- chromacity2 hours ago
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skerit2 hours ago
Neat. Is it a single under-trained token in GPT-5.2? Or is something else going on?
- WatchDog41 minutes ago
  Perhaps, the word does have it's own token, " geschniegelt"(geschniegelt with a space in front of it), is token 192786 in the tokenizer that GPT-5 apparently uses.
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/niieani/gpt-tokenizer/refs...
- magicalhippoan hour ago
  Based on their tokenizer tool[1], for GPT 5.x "geschniegelt" is tokenized into three tokens:
  (ges)(chn)(iegelt)
  [1]: https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer
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alberto-m2 hours ago
Love to see some old-style death loops. Reminds me of when /r/bing was showing the best deliria of the early versions of Copilot.
- P-Nuts40 minutes ago
  Have a look at this recent Scrabble video where Claude plays semi reasonably and ChatGPT goes crazy https://youtu.be/8opLB1D_RYY (skip to 6:50 for the insanity)
vova_hn22 hours ago
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doeneran hour ago
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