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.
Things most Americans agree on:
Groceries cost too much.
Tariffs suck and make no sense.
Congress and Presidents shouldn’t trade stocks.
The debt is a mess.
The border should be secure, but legal immigration is good.
Endless wars are stupid, especially ones that nobody wants and have never been explained.
Americans are exhausted.
AI is like my new best friend that also might be trying to take my job, my ability to think for myself, and my humanity in the process. Yo like I love you, but WTF, but I still love you.
Diversity is actually awesome! The opposite is boring AF.
Canadians are super fucking cool.
Mexicans are chill.
Putin isn’t a good guy looking out for America’s best interest. Rocky IV and Miracle are great movies.
Good neighbors are a blessing.
Freedom of religion and coexistence without having to blow each other up is probably a good idea.
We all question, are we alone in the universe?
We all fuck up along the way.
Epstein didn’t hang himself.
The Trumps and Epstein were best friends for decades. It’s like Bert trying to tell us Ernie was just an acquaintance in the same social scene on Sesame Street back in the day.
The Cowboys suck. Go Birds!
Things we’re told to fight about:
Me.
Laptop.
Vaccines.
Transgenders in sports.
Pronouns.
That’s the joke.
@nexta_tv Radio waves are free, and one can also broadcast its own radio, as long as this is also free of course. Else, we will return to Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, or BBC World Service in Russian.
The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.
The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.
Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.
If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has made several extremely important statements about Ukraine. I want to analyze them in detail, because this is essentially a recognition at the highest level of what I have been saying for a long time.
“I am very grateful to them for this work; they created the Danish model. And what did we realize? We have learned that you are able, as a country, to produce faster and brighter and smarter than the rest of us, even though we are not at war. That is quite embarrassing for the rest of Europe, it's quite impressive.
And cheaper. It’s even cheaper. So, we have learned a lot.
What you did was to combine your industrial base with innovation, your technology, your universities, your startups, your soldiers, your military experts and what was going on the battlefield. And by doing so, you set an example for all of us.”
This is an accurate description of what we have built over four years of war. Not just “arms factories,” but an entire ecosystem: engineers, startups, universities, the military, and manufacturers, all connected in a single loop that operates at the speed of war, not the speed of peacetime bureaucracy. While large Western corporations spend years negotiating a single contract, a Ukrainian company goes from idea to combat deployment on the front lines in a matter of weeks — and immediately refines the product based on real data from the battlefield.
And the key here is the words “cheaper” and “faster.” This is no coincidence; it is the new mathematics of war, which I keep repeating. The future of the defense industry does not lie in expensive platforms with billion-dollar development budgets and decades of production. The future lies in the speed of the innovation cycle, in the ability to mass-produce cheaply, and in access to one’s own production capabilities. Software and algorithms have almost lost their value — they’re written by artificial intelligence. What matters is the physical capacity to produce and access to resources. And Ukraine has proven this better than any country in the world.
On Ukraine’s place in European security:
“So, I think there are a lot of lessons learned. And the way I see it now, is that if you ask me, we should rearm Europe entirely before 2030. Not by 2035, but by 2030. And for me, defending Europe now means including Ukraine in Europe. Europe will not be able to do what we have to do without Ukraine. So, in the beginning of the war, we were helping you. Now it’s not totally shifted, but now we are depending on each other.”
But most importantly, Frederiksen spoke about “red lines” and the level of assistance from “allies”:
“One of the things I also disagreed with some of my colleagues about is all those red lines that have been put on Ukraine. You remember in the beginning we were willing to give away some of our F-16s, but we weren’t allowed to do that because some allies said we cannot put our fighter jets in Ukraine. Then we had the question about long-range weapons, also a red line.
And you know, there have been so many red lines. And I don’t think you can win a war with red lines. Of course, we have to respect international law, the laws of war, and so on, but it’s almost like we’re asking you to defend Europe with one hand tied behind your back.”
There it is. The fundamental truth of this war, finally voiced by a Western leader. For four years, we were forced to fight with one hand tied behind our backs.
Remember the conditions under which we fought. While Iran openly supplied Russia with “Shaheds” and ballistic missiles. While North Korea sent Putin thousands of soldiers and millions of shells. While China kept the Russian economy afloat. At the exact same time, Ukraine was receiving endless “red lines” from its partners: no F-16s, no long-range weapons, no striking Russian territory — no, no, no. They gave us just enough so we wouldn’t lose, but not enough for us to win.
And do you know what turned the tide of this war? Not the lifting of foreign restrictions. But the fact that we stopped looking back at them. We built our own defense industry. We created our own long-range drones and missiles, to which no foreign “red line” applies. We decided for ourselves that we would hunt the enemy everywhere — in Moscow, in Tatarstan, on the Caspian Sea, in Novorossiysk. Without permits. Without approvals. Without heeding those who feared “escalation.”
It was precisely our own weapons, which no one can ban, that made us a subject.
I would like to thank Mette Frederiksen personally. For the Danish model, which has become an example for all of Europe. For the honesty with which she declared the fallacy of “red lines.” And for her principled stance on Ukraine’s EU membership and European security. Denmark is an example of a true ally that helps not with words, but with deeds.
CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem.
Two problems, actually.
One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired.
Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be.
You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner.
The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke.
The AI just invoices you for the outage.
And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about.
To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game.
You didn’t hire a replacement.
You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.
Enjoy.
@erosenglish@AmbasadaSUA Te-ai trezit și tu! Daca era să fie turul doi acum era Lașconi nu Nicușor. Am fi ales-o pe Lasconi, am fi ales pe oricine în afara de CG. Așa a ajuns Nicușor. Anularea alegerilor v-a dat doar combustibil sa aveți ce striga ani de-cum înainte.
@AmbasadaSUA America, land of the free! Beacon of freedom and democracy! Leader of the free world! Now tapping their shoulders with the worst autocratic leaders on this planet. I will not visit Russia, I will not visit the USA. Keep your visas, not for me! Thanks but no thanks
@AmbasadaSUA Exact din acest motiv nu voi aplica niciodată pentru o viză pentru USA. Nu îmi place să solicit vize niciunde, chiar daca am vizitat și tari unde am cerut viză, India, Iordania, China nimeni nu m-a luat la întrebări, fara interviuri, formular, taxa, bine ați venit în vizită!
@alexmarketx In almost all other businesses one has Sales costs. It costs you to sell. To get your offer to the potential consumer. Not the other way around. The commission is for the seller to pay, not to the buyer.
Mr. Hartmann writes:
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@notsilencednow@JamesTate121 He is old. Time does not forgive anybody. Why does anyone with rational thinking worry that Trump can realistically be able to go for a third term? Even if he would not be that old, if a third term will be allowed he will run against Obama...
@OccupyDemocrats Trump's third term is a stupid discussion. The man will turn 80 this year. If it will run for President again he will be 83. And if he would win he would finish at 87. Really? Why would anyone discuss that? And, would Trump win against Obama?
@DreamDividend Indeed, when your business is on a razor thin margin, any unforeseen price hike will tear you down. And this was unforeseen indeed. Who could imagine a war of choice could start without weighing the consequences. After all Hormuz strait is very narrow.