{"podcast":{"title":"what's this button do?","slug":"what-s-this-button-do-6698176","podcast_index_feed_id":6698176,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/dexdigi/","website_url":"https://dexdigi.captivate.fm","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/78a711e2-fe03-4349-9b37-4f506cd136d7/wtbd-logo.jpg","author":"Dexter Thomas","episode_count":30,"summary":"technology for people who think they aren't nerds","last_synced_at":"2026-06-24T06:20:59.623023+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-s-this-button-do-6698176"},"episode":{"title":"chatGPT wants to \"catch\" Chinese people","slug":"chatgpt-wants-to-catch-chinese-people","published_at":"2026-05-28T16:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-s-this-button-do-6698176/chatgpt-wants-to-catch-chinese-people","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-s-this-button-do-6698176","url":"https://dexdigi.captivate.fm/episode/chatgpt-wants-to-catch-chinese-people","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8314719c-5c23-4e94-9061-72d7aa1445bf.mp3","summary":"If you're Chinese, ChatGPT has probably offered to 'steadily catch' you at least once. But what why does it keep saying that? And why is 我会稳稳地接住你 a meme (instead of making people mad)... and by the way, will Chinese college students boo at their graduations? Zeyi Yang is a senior writer at WIRED, and his article was the inspiration for this. See below for more of his work! oh, and welcome to 🕹️WHAT'S THIS BUTTON DO?🕹️ a series where I get experts to explain technology to the rest of us. this is episode two. hope you dig. ===================== == sources/references == ===================== Zeyi’s article: https://wired.com/story/chatgpt-chinese-catch-you-steadily-sycophancy/ find Zeyi on bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/zeyiyang.bsky.social OpenAI launches a new image generation model: wired.com/story/openai-beefs-up-chatgpts-image-generation-model/ openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-images-2-0/ Concurrent, the newsletter Zeyi mentioned: https://afraw.substack.com A sample question of someone asking about 'catch steadily': AI 说的「稳稳地接住你」到底是什么意思？ https://www.zhihu.com/question/2028251818384192677 📝 On punctuation in other languages 📝 Efecto ChatGPT: ya empezamos a hablar todos como robots https://elpais.com/ideas/2025-10-19/ya-empezamos-a-hablar-como-robots.html The ChatGPT effect: We’ve all started talking like robots https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-01/the-chatgpt-effect-weve-all-started-talking-like-robots.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com 「それChatGPTに書いてもらったでしょ？」と思ってしまう瞬間 (The moment when I think \"did you have ChatGPT write that for you?\") https://note.com/megumi_log/n/n8c5a518bbc8d AIは嫌いじゃない。でもAIっぽい文章は読めない (I don't hate AI. But I can't read AI-style writing.) https://note.com/shoppukun/n/n75b48abc390b catch yall on the next one.","meta_description":"If you're Chinese, ChatGPT has probably offered to 'steadily catch' you at least once. But what why does it keep saying that? And why is 我会稳稳地接住你 a meme (…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1811,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/what-s-this-button-do-6698176/episodes/chatgpt-wants-to-catch-chinese-people/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-s-this-button-do-6698176/chatgpt-wants-to-catch-chinese-people.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}