Ariج

Struggle, honour, courage / IBA, CSS /🇵🇰 🇬🇧

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice.

You thought it was you. It is not you.

Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse.

Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like.

The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation.

Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first.

What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland.

Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved.

They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data.

The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment."

The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible.

This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis.

The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world.

Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Confidencemaxxing.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Dana White says a 72-hour water fast (done a couple times a year) completely changed how he feels.

On Adin Ross, he described it as giving insane mental clarity and making you feel incredible. He sticks strictly to water + zero-calorie electrolytes the whole time and calls it one of the most beneficial things he’s ever done for himself.

48–72 hour water fasting has been shown in studies to significantly increase autophagy (cellular repair and cleanup), boost growth hormone levels, improve insulin sensitivity, and reduce systemic inflammation. It also enhances metabolic flexibility, helping the body burn fat more efficiently.

Have you ever tried a multi-day water fast? Would you consider doing a 72-hour one?

[Ariج @Arijjamil]

@doc_zee7 @sadafjd

[Ariج @Arijjamil]

@knowiiiedge If radiation and chemo then with

[Pablo Alcalde @HProductiva]

El mejor consejo si estás empezando 🙌🏼

[Ariج @Arijjamil]

@elonmusk The people of UK have rejected you and your friend so pls stfu

[Ariج @Arijjamil]

Completely fooled by Netanyahu

[Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 @MarinaMedvin]

I miss this president.

[Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 @MarinaMedvin]

I miss this president.

[Ariج @Arijjamil]

I realised this after 40

[feyisayo 💸 @feyiszn]

My greatest disappointment as an adult was discovering that bad people get away with everything.

[feyisayo 💸 @feyiszn]

My greatest disappointment as an adult was discovering that bad people get away with everything.

[Ariج @Arijjamil]

Keith Richards is an anomaly not to be taken as inpiration

[The Extreme Music Enthusiast @TheExtremeMusi1]

"I had three doctors who told me — 'If you keep going like this, I won't give you six months.' I buried all three of them."

— Keith Richards

[Ariج @Arijjamil]

@WalayatMalik1 @worqas Wrong, it’s a millitary state

[Ariج @Arijjamil]

@whytegirlys @sadafjd

[Ariج @Arijjamil]

@Be_Believing @sadafjd should we try this?

[DefenceInstinct | Cinematic Reels @DefenceInstinct]

Boxing footworks for beginners 🥊🥊

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

This stretch should be mandatory for people who sit at desks.

It's called the Tactical Frog.

Your hip flexors shorten when you sit. Your glutes stop firing. Your lower back picks up the slack and starts screaming.

The Tactical Frog targets the inner groin, hip flexors, and adductors at the same time.

How to do it:

Get on all fours. Slide your knees out wide, feet flat and facing out. Lower your hips back slowly until you feel a deep stretch through the inner thighs and groin. Hold for 60 to 90 seconds. Breathe into the tight spots.

It should feel uncomfortable but not painful.

Do it every morning before you open your laptop. Do it again before bed.

I've had clients eliminate years of lower back pain just by making this a daily habit because back wasn't the problem. The hips were.

Sitting is not neutral. It's a slow accumulation of tension that eventually becomes injury.

This can be the antidote.

[sf @solfagz]

the advice on learning maths is SEVERELY underrated

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

If you feel that you are in competition with anyone, for anything, you are a loser.

[Ariج @Arijjamil]

@Mr_Andrew_Fox @mattwridley Unbelievable how intellectually dishonest all those amplifying this falsehood are