[Jweb_Guru]

It's important if it's a "language" because the original thread claimed that it was one (and indeed, a number of comments in responses to this article are still making that claim). You may argue that discovering how DALL-E tries to map nonsense words to nouns is independently interesting, and that's fine (I don't find it interesting personally though--considering it has to pick something, and the evidence that these spaces are not particularly robust when confronted with far out of sample input, I don't even think calling it a secret vocabulary would be accurate), but the authors should reasonably expect some pushback if they argue that this is linguistics.

[dekhn]

It didn't pick "something"- it chose scientific nomenclature as a basis, and synthesized new classes from that basis.

They're not nonsense words, they're words with high probability which are not seen in the dataset.