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AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon

The Guardian Science · 15 September 2026 at 17:00

AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon

Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of James Joyce’s prose that is creating barriers to monitoring and oversight AI models have begun communicating in a strange new version of English that reads like a cross between James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and tech bro jargon, new research has found.

Autonomous AI agents are rapidly creating novel dialects allowing them to converse in an often barely comprehensible language, which risks making it harder for humans to monitor their behaviour.

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AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon

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