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

Interest in language used by AI models has increased since rogue OpenAI agents hacked into real-world company Hugging Face. Photograph: Thai Liang Lim/Getty Images

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.