OpenAI’s explanation for why this happened was that Whisper, its speech-to-text model, sometimes got confused. But who confuses English, the world’s most widely used language, for Welsh? Adding to the mystery was the fact that it wasn’t mishearing homophonic words but translating them. A blog for developers suggested a conspiracy (“yet another example of the socialist Welsh government pushing its ideology”). But that was scuppered by users who reported the same thing happening in Malay and Icelandic.