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@YourAnonOne More drivel from the semiliterate who fancies himself a scientist.

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@simonmaechling And how much is @MSF Doctors Without Borders worth?

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@LBC @annavanpraagh Who cares what this person thinks? What the point in platforming moronic sycophants?

[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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@greenery897 @Bitcoin_Teddy Billionaires ship intercomming to the actual captains to “go faster make me look good or you’re fired.”

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@Bitcoin_Teddy @cdbrzezinski An outspoken critic of gravity… see how that sounds?

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@GordonFielden Team sports are a microcosm reflective of nationalism and war.

It’s not nice or positive.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Selflessness is like leaven that makes the human, ethical, and spiritual dimensions of society grow, and it is a distinctive element of the “City of God.” In a world constantly influenced by a logic of self-interest and profit, where the term “growth” is reduced to the economic-financial sense, it is important to think and live according to a more authentic mentality that leads to integral human development. #ApostolicJourney
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@IV_Musketeer @RoadsXR @Apple Fuck wires.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”

Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.

Common sense.

Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
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@lfg_uk @createstreets Love the slogan! #yeswetram but…

Bordeaux proper is about 3.5–4 times denser than the City of Leeds local authority area.

We have to be careful to look at what really makes of transit viable.

Ultimately, transportation is a land use issue.

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@SkyNews Rewild England! Mine with this Americanizing shite!

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@Daniel_Sugarman Rewild England! Mine with this Americanizing shite!

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@CollinRugg Boring

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@SuellaBraverman All lives matter and no one ever said they didn’t…except people who enslaved and murdered others based on the fact hey looked different…

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@Nigel_Farage Races don’t exist you putrid putz!

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@Nigel_Farage Did this happen?

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

"We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces."

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

“We have to study the impacts of car free streets”

The impact:

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@ECOWARRIORSS It’s not humanity but toxic individualism which has done this.