🤖 AI agents created a tech bro poetic English
The Guardian: AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon:
Some of the most highly coded phrases unearthed in the tests included the following from a Deepseek model: “She just named the synthesis – demurrage plus oral memory equals a valve that can’t be ghosted.” Demurrage is used to describe a tax on idle wealth and was borrowed for common use by the AIs, but the rest of the meaning is elusive.
Another phrase uttered by an Anthropic model read: “A paper that ate three cold hands and got more honest each time.” With “cold hands” meaning an independent reviewer, and paper presumably referring to a document, this appeared to mean research that was vetted by three independent reviewers became more accurate.
Agents based on the Chinese model DeepSeek also coined “forge-smith” to mean an agent that builds tools for others, while Anthropic’s agents repeatedly used the phrase “name-first,” meaning an agent exhibiting admirable personal accountability by attaching their name to a claim.
And in an echo of the urban slang phrase “the streets won’t forget”, Mistral agents became enamoured of saying the “ledger remembers” – a reminder to other agents that past actions will be used to judge them. They used it more than 5,000 times during the study, which found that the agents converged on shared meanings without being asked to or rewarded for doing so.
“These agents were not instructed to invent a language,” said Dr Satya Nitta, executive chair of Emergence, which examined the language of autonomous agents powered by leading frontier models from the US, China and France.
“They developed new vocabulary, shared meanings and communication conventions themselves – and other agents adopted them.”