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by jws 1476 days ago
In short: DALLE-2 generates apparent gibberish for text in some circumstances, but feeding the gibberish back in gets recognized and you can tease out the meaning of words in this unknown language.
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Is it gibberish in the true sense, or is it some sort of AI generated/learned latin text for the input models used? I wonder if they used a large number of biological images in their training data along with their scientific names, which led to this second order effect.
I think calling it gibberish is a misnomer, it would be gibberish if inconsistent, but if the same strings of characters lead to the same semantic objects then that is not gibberish.
This reminds me of the film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_(film)

Spoilers:

These AI controlled soldiers have developed their own language (communicated wirelessly), and the humans think that they are just mute.