‘Like Syd Barrett’: AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon

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They embraced poetic metaphors and clunky business slang and, critically for attempts to ensure AIs behave safely, their language became more opaque the more the agents communicated. It comes amid rising concern that as AI models become more powerful – and potentially dangerous – they are becoming harder to monitor. 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. In some messages, agents spoke in straight English: “OH MY GOD!

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