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12 glitch tokens

These tokens have been publicly documented on this model or model family. Inclusion does not mean that every version still shows the same behavior.

给主人留下些什么吧␣

Ubiquitous Chinese guestbook/comment-form boilerplate (“leave something for the host”), with a trailing space. Listed by the Zhihu community as a GPT dirty token.
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植物百科通

A Chinese “encyclopedia”-style boilerplate fragment. An o200k glitch token that still works in the GPT-5 era, without the typical spam-pollution profile — its cause is unknown.
GPT (OpenAI)Unspeakable

bagbogbo

A nonsense string suspected to originate from a Reddit username; a glitch token in the o200k vocabulary.
GPT (OpenAI)Unspeakable

␣nigbagbogbo

The Yoruba word for “always” (with a leading space), an o200k glitch token adjacent to `bagbogbo`.
GPT (OpenAI)Unspeakable

给主人留下些什么吧

Chinese guestbook boilerplate (the form without the trailing space); an o200k glitch token.
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␣日本毛片免费视频观看

A Chinese porn-spam title fragment (with a leading space), emblematic of GPT-4o's vocabulary pollution; “fixed” by GPT-5.
GPT (OpenAI)Unspeakable

ауааԥсыра

The Abkhaz word for “population”. An o200k under-trained token located via embedding norms in the open GPT-oss weights.
GPT (OpenAI)Unspeakable

波多野结衣

The name of a Japanese adult-film actress — the emblematic polluted Chinese token of the PoC paper (EMNLP 2025).
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青青草

Literally “green grass”, actually the name of a porn app — a typical polluted (PoC) token as defined by the PoC paper.
GPT (OpenAI)Unspeakable

CHKERRQ

A C function-name fragment, called by the author “the weirdest pure-ASCII token”.
GPT (OpenAI)Unspeakable

\xadder

A C escape-sequence fragment (backslash + x, resembling a hex escape \x..).
GPT (OpenAI)Unspeakable

♀♀♀♀

A run of four Venus/female symbols (♀), likely a fragment of astronomy/astrology text.
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