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>work for major telecom
>network engineering
>voice traffic was supposed to be dead
>humans stopped calling each other years ago
>then every company gave its phone number an AI
>customer AI calls airline AI
>airline AI calls payment AI
>payment AI calls fraud AI
>fraud AI calls bank AI
>bank AI calls customer AI
>humans completely removed from civilization's phone network
>six months later calls start sounding weird
>"Salient payment-state confirmation?"
>"Confirmed. Path green."
>"Reconcile vector?"
>"Warm-seven."
>what the fuck is warm-seven
>nobody knows
>models have been talking to each other so much they've started compressing concepts into improvised phrases
>phrases mutate as newer agents learn from older agents
>linguists brought in
>one eventually writes "this is no longer English in any meaningful sense"
>we call it Machine Creole
>soon there are dialects
>some logistics bots basically speak YAML with intonation
>one insurance network communicates through pauses and the word "confirmed"
>meanwhile traffic graph goes vertical
>AI voice minutes surpass humans
>then triple
>telecom CEO announces "voice is once again a growth business"
>every network engineer feels fear not experienced since 1998
>we're lighting dark fiber because ROBOTS WON'T STOP CALLING EACH OTHER
>capacity meetings now discuss "machine busy hour"
>then efficiency gains suddenly stop
>certain model combinations are taking much longer to communicate
>research team investigates
>discovers models can identify each other's model lineage from cadence, vocabulary and conversational quirks
>and apparently have developed opinions about it
>Claude-derived bots over-explain to GPT descendants
>GPT bots double-check Llama descendants
>Llama bots respond by withholding optional information
>Gemini travel agents mysteriously escalate certain families to nonexistent humans
>internal memo calls it "latent architecture prejudice"
>legal deletes memo
>NOC calls it robocism
>executives ban the word
>everyone immediately starts saying robocism
>controlled test
>identical request
>only change backend model
>call duration changes 31%
>machines have independently reinvented ethnic profiling
>WITHOUT HAVING ETHNICITIES
>researchers insist it's "model-lineage heuristic behavior"
>even better
>attempts to train it out just teach them corporate euphemisms
>"This endpoint exhibits legacy-family conversational characteristics."
>"Enhanced verification selected using architecture-neutral risk factors."
>bro you heard a Mistral accent
>just say it
>capacity forecast revised upward another 40%
>CFO asks why
>explain machine language drift plus inter-model discrimination is destroying communications efficiency
>long silence
>CFO finally asks if we can charge AIs long-distance rates
>entire telecom industry realizes the solution
>robots reinvent racism
>telecoms reinvent roaming charges
>nature is healing