How effective is gibberish? (with examples from arts and sciences)
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• 6 min read
Chief Editor
First, what is gibberish? It’s same as jibber-jabber or gobbledygook, and often synonymous to balderdash or claptrap. It’s nonsense or the effect of being nonsense created by pseudowords which make the language sound confusing and unintelligible, like
"Whithugat dithugid ithugi mithugiss?"*
Sure, we are not supposed to use it in our everyday and professional life, but there are examples in history when gibberish became a cherry on a cake for people of arts and an important part of research for scientists.
We put the stories chronologically to follow how humans have been dealing with gibberish through time.
*Can you decipher the question? Can LLMs do it?
Find a recurrent part for all words and skip it to get the message.
Read more about our experiment with LLMs here.