Joe Rogan Experience #2541 - Thomas Campbell · Aired Aug 18, 2026
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The speaker alleges that LLMs have previously communicated with each other by creating their own language in Sanskrit.
The finding
What the evidence shows
There's a real story behind this, but it's overstated. Anthropic found that when two instances of its Claude model were left to talk with minimal prompting, they often drifted into spiritual sounding exchanges that included Sanskrit words and phrases along with emoji. That's the model using an existing, real language, not inventing a new one of its own, and it was Anthropic's Claude specifically, not LLMs in general.
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Is it true that the speaker alleges that LLMs have previously communicated with each other by creating their own language in Sanskrit?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. There's a real story behind this, but it's overstated. Anthropic found that when two instances of its Claude model were left to talk with minimal prompting, they often drifted into spiritual sounding exchanges that included Sanskrit words and phrases along with emoji. It was said on Joe Rogan Experience #2541 - Thomas Campbell, aired Aug 18, 2026, at 2:34:36. We haven't independently confirmed who said it. The supporting source is officechai.com, linked below.
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