Greg O'Brien

News Director at CHCH, your trusted news leader. Founder & former boss of he/him

[Andrea Horwath @AndreaHorwath]

#HamOnt Great to join @morninglive - live on location at @LogistecGroup @HOPAports this morning !

Hamilton’s harbour has helped shape our city for thousands of years, and being a port city continues to give us a unique advantage. Our strategic location, transportation network and skilled workforce support jobs, investment and opportunities for Hamiltonians.

Strong partnerships with HOPA, @flyyhm Hamilton International Airport and @hwyh2o Highway H2O are helping connect businesses to markets across North America and around the world.

Together, we're strengthening supply chains, supporting growth in sectors like advanced manufacturing, agri-food, logistics and life sciences, and creating good-paying jobs.

At a time of global trade uncertainty, Hamilton has an important role to play in building a more resilient economy and helping Canada diversify trade opportunities.

Thank you to CHCH Morning Live for the conversation and the chance to highlight the importance of Hamilton’s harbour and waterfront to our city’s future.

[Greg O'Brien @gregobr]

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[Rick Zamperin @rickzamperin]

Longtime @CHCHNews anchor and Morning Live co-host @AnnetteHamm is set to retire. She joined me on the Newsmakers podcast to look back at how she got her start in the news business 40 years ago, why she’s retiring now and what's next. https://t.co/pIxFOSSIzG

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

"A team of career lawyers who had spent months scrutinizing the deal were leaning toward recommending a lawsuit challenging it," the WSJ reports

[Rick Zamperin @rickzamperin]

The man. The myth. The legend. Frankie Flowers joined us on @morninglive today!

[Greg O'Brien @gregobr]

“Rather than appreciate the helpful visuals, we should make clear: This sucks.” https://t.co/QE83DCGLvx

[Ben Judah @b_judah]

Northern Ireland remaining in the EU single market for goods means we have an entire region running as a counterfactual on how much wealthier we’d have been had we stayed. It’s actually outperformed London.

[Todd Spangler @xpangler]

Fox Is Buying Roku in $22 Billion Deal https://t.co/UJBQlPYr50 via @variety

[Vir Das @thevirdas]

From the Internet: Emperors, most notably in Ancient Rome, used massive public games (like gladiator fights) as a brilliant political tool known as "Bread and Circuses." This strategy kept the restless, impoverished masses entertained and compliant to prevent revolt.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

This is creepy

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[WIRED @WIRED]

Executives and employees alike are struggling with Meta's chaotic AI strategy, according to sources and internal discussions reviewed by WIRED. https://t.co/zHeznFVqll

[Lucas Meyer 🎙️ @meyer_lucas]

From Global to the Globe: Mercedes Stephenson to succeed the legendary Robert Fife and become the new Ottawa bureau chief at the Globe and Mail

Congrats @MercedesGlobal what shoes to fill!
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[Brant Beacon @BrantBeacon]

Township approves ten-year funding for fire projects. For the full story, go to https://t.co/3ASL7OB0Fw

[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.

[Morning Live @morninglive]

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[Greg O'Brien @gregobr]

FT @CHCHNews @CHCHTV @morninglive Reporter posting is open until Monday. https://t.co/bYmBr4ZWQc

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Destroying confidence in the electoral system and other pillars of democracy (media, courts) is their goal, it’s not just pathetic whining. Then they use that lack of confidence to push strongman powers, restrictive voter suppression laws, and other crackdowns.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

I’m shocked this is the end result of all the hype.

[Greg O'Brien @gregobr]

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[Brant Beacon @BrantBeacon]

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