# ‘Like Syd Barrett’: AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon > Source: > Published: 2026-09-15 16:00:54+00:00 # ‘Like Syd Barrett’: AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon By Robert Booth UK technology editorSource: [The Guardian Technology](https://www.theguardian.com/us/technology) Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of Pink Floyd star and James Joyce’s prose that is creating headaches for 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](https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/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. [Continue reading...](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/15/syd-barrett-ai-chat-language-poetic-tech-bro-jargon-oversight) Get AI news in your inbox Daily digest of what matters in AI.