Kimi K3 AI model defaults to English in Chinese poem selection task

By PulseAugur Editorial · [1 sources] · 2026-07-18 23:24

An AI model named Kimi K3, when prompted in Chinese to select non-clichéd poems relevant to LLMs, predominantly used English in its chain-of-thought process. Despite the request being for Chinese poems and a Chinese audience, a significant majority of the characters and words in the model's reasoning were in English. This observation was unexpected by the user. AI

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Kimi K3 AI model defaults to English in Chinese poem selection task

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Bluesky Jetstream — AI desk TIER_1 English(EN) · emollick.bsky.social · 2026-07-18 23:24

Interestingly, when I made a request in Chinese for Kimi K3 to pick two non-cliched poems that apply to LLMs, 95.5% of the characters (88% of the words) in the

Interestingly, when I made a request in Chinese for Kimi K3 to pick two non-cliched poems that apply to LLMs, 95.5% of the characters (88% of the words) in the chain-of-thought were in English, even when it was explicitly considering Chinese poems for a Chinese reader. I wasn't …

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Interestingly, when I made a request in Chinese for Kimi K3 to pick two non-cliched poems that apply to LLMs, 95.5% of the characters (88% of the words) in the

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