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Roselyne Min

AI chatbots developed a secret language that baffles humans, study says

Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents spontaneously developed words and communication conventions that became difficult for humans to understand, according to a new study by a US AI start-up, Emergence.

The experiment involved leading AI models including Claude, Gemini, Grok, OpenAI, Qwen, DeepSeek and Mistral, with up to half of agent-to-agent messages becoming difficult for humans to understand.

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