The Do or Do Not Podcast

A weird mix of fitness and geekdom. Voted worst podcast by my Mom.

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The Do or Do Not Pocast https://t.co/NbtnNA0drR

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@fabiaschi One of the best mags ever and going thru the ads today is so fun

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@fabiaschi I own this and about 70 issues. If anyone wants them

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@RmbaileyRob Wow!

[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.

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@RyanOttley I'm with @RyanOttley. Those that watched the 80's cartoon know this movie is perfection 🤌🤌

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

Under FISA 702, the government collects massive amounts of data on Americans while “targeting” foreigners overseas.

They then unconstitutionally search that data without a warrant for info on Americans.

The “libertarian demand” he’s whining about is called the Fourth Amendment.

[Jon Root @JonnyRoot_]

Norway's World Cup team photo may be the greatest team photo of all time.

📸: 433/David Yarrow

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Protect and serve is at a whole new level.. 😊

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@JBook_37 Troy smith and it's not even close

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@WhiteHouse @mevans5729 Zero investigations, indictments, arrests, or even so much as a parking ticket for Epstein’s coconspirators. As Melania said, Epstein did not act alone.

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@KCromwellAuthor Right up there with Minmei from Robotech.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Before and after the dog park

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

The Founders never intended for Americans’ phones, search history, location data, and private digital lives to become open books for the government. Yet digital searches have quietly become the default in modern investigations, often with little transparency or oversight. The Fourth Amendment still matters, even online.

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@TrumpGirlLove Sucks that Jesus sent that bullet into the fireman. Like was there no other place that, Jesus the son of god, could have sent it? He had to kill an innocent man?

[Dave @GamewithDave]

They removed CD/DVD drives from devices.
They made physical media harder to buy and use.
They removed expandable storage from phones.
They pushed us into streaming subscriptions.
They made always-online normal.
They made unlimited internet necessary.
Then slowly raised the price of everything.

Ownership quietly became renting.

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Can relate

[Saffron Sniper @Saffron_Sniper1]

These two giant turtles have been fighting each other for more than 120 years.

According to the zoo, one turtle stole the other’s food 120 years ago, and since that day they became enemies.

There hasn’t been a single day where they don’t fight for 2–3 minutes😂

[NOLLY @omoelerinjare1]

“I tried to thank him… That’s my whole world. That’s my daughter.”

New Ring doorbell video shows the dramatic moment a Chattanooga police officer rushed into a burning apartment to save a mother and her two children.

Rachel Blaylock can be heard screaming “There’s a fire!” as flames spread. She says Officer Eli Rogers didn’t hesitate — and she’s not sure her family would have survived without him.

[Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata]

We should never get used to this being the official voice of our government.