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Have you seen this video?

“This is gonna be scariest sound you’ll hear when they’re looking for you”

“This is almost like two R2-D2’s having a conversation.”

“Literally sounds like something out of a sci-fi horror with the AI looking for you hiding in the cupboard lol”

What’s going on? Is Skynet upon us? What is Gibberlink mode?

Gibberlink Mode

Gibberlink mode is an AI communication protocol that allows two AI agents to communicate via a sound-based language optimized for inter-machine communications. Once two AI voice agents realize they’re in a conversation, they can switch to communicating via Gibberlink mode.

This enables them to transmit and receive data via the GGWave protocol, which encodes digital data into bursts of sound. This compacts the data, making it an efficient communication method.

Some mechanics the protocol uses include:

• Frequency division multiplexing: Using multiple carrier frequencies at once, boosting throughput and signal integrity.
• Packet structure: Data bursts form packets, containing a header, payload, and end marker.
• Encryption: Though Gibberlink data on its own is insecure (to devices at least), some promising results are demonstrating that AI voice agents can learn to encrypt data via public keys and derived secret keys.

Why Gibberlink?

Created by Anton Pidkuiko and Boris Starkov, and demonstrated via this viral video, Gibberlink won the global top prize at the ElevenLabs (a leading speech synthesis company) Worldwide Hackathon. Despite its playful appearance, the technology is seeing steady adoption among voice agents. Gibberlink’s upsides include:

• Speed: Up to 80% faster than spoken language.
• Efficiency: Reduced computational load, by representing data efficiently and avoiding full NLP for communication.
• Security: Harder to intercept than spoken language.