Hetal Shah

Marketing Professional | Wildlife Photograher | Head Strong | Right Doer | Wrong Hater

[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.

[Hetal Shah @hetalsha]

Suggestive traffic rules:
1) any vehicle driving under speed limit in first 2 lanes must be fined to slow down traffic
2) 2 & 3 wheeler vehicles not allowed in the first two lanes. Must be fined if they block and not move
@MTPHereToHelp

[Hetal Shah @hetalsha]

US was importing solar panels from India because they no longer wanted Chinese goods. Now US imposes 126% tariffs because they don’t even want Indian goods

Where is US going to import from? Because on all markets they are imposing high tariffs. Time for Make in US?

[Hetal Shah @hetalsha]

Due to VIP movement, sclr phase 2 and WEH has been cordoned off.

Common man’s time is not important. Time wasted 20 mins till now. @MTPHereToHelp

[Hetal Shah @hetalsha]

@ParagShahBJP @mybmcWardN @mybmc water quality is back to being horrible after 2 days of improvement

Please do a permanent job and stop playing with water. It’s the most basic requirement for humans.

[Hetal Shah @hetalsha]

The water supply in Ghatkopar east has been horrible since several weeks. Even the mineral water sold in the area is duplicate. Never knew it has impossible to find drinking water in #mumbai @mybmc @mybmcWardN @GulabraoRPatil

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

BREAKING: India just lost its THIRD Tejas fighter jet in 23 months.

But the crash isn’t the story.

The story is what happened in the 90 days BEFORE this crash:

Dubai Airshow, November 2025. Tejas crashes on live television. Pilot killed. First fatality in 24 years of the program. Every defense buyer on earth watching. Armenia immediately suspends its $1.2 billion deal. India’s first ever Tejas export, dead on arrival.

February 2026. Ministry of Defence formally excludes HAL from the AMCA fifth-generation stealth fighter program. First time in 80 years of Indian aviation that the state monopoly has been locked out of a frontline fighter. Tata, L&T, and Bharat Forge shortlisted instead.

Three companies that have never built a fighter jet in their lives chosen over the only one that has.

The disqualification criterion? Any company with an order book exceeding 3x annual revenue scores ZERO. HAL’s backlog sits at 7x revenue.

Read that again. The order book that every analyst on Dalal Street pitched as HAL’s “moat” and “visibility” literally became the metric that eliminated it from the future of Indian air power.

Then today. Third crash. Entire Tejas fleet grounded. Flight testing suspended. Mk1A certification now frozen while investigations run. HAL had already failed to deliver a single Mk1A despite promising 11 by February. Forty aircraft delivered across the entire program since 1982. Forty.

And the stock still trades at 33x earnings.
Here is what consensus is sleepwalking through: these are not three separate events.

Dubai, AMCA, and today’s crash are reinforcing nodes in a single structural regime change. India is dismantling its defense monopoly in real time.

The MoD procurement doctrine that killed HAL’s AMCA bid is not a one-time rule. It is permanent policy. It will apply to every future program.

HAL does not recover its former position. It becomes a legacy manufacturer while private India builds the fifth generation.

The 80-year monopoly ended. Nobody rang the bell.

[Hetal Shah @hetalsha]

The water supply in Ghatkopar east has been horrible since several weeks. Even the mineral water sold in the area is duplicate. Never knew it has impossible to find drinking water in #mumbai @mybmc @mybmcWardN @GulabraoRPatil

[Dhritiman Mukherjee @dhritimanimages]

Brown Palm Civet is endemic to the forest of Western Ghat. Means they are not found any other place in the world. They are one of the most important seed dispersers of the forest. Check this article on the mammals of southern Western Ghat - https://t.co/BOmGYQ8ZCg.

[Hetal Shah @hetalsha]

@AAI_Official it would be nice to have sleeping pods at the airport for passengers. These should be chargeable so they are well maintained. #recomendation

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

🚨 Indian-origin historian Sunil Amrith wins British Academy Book Prize. 🏆

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

The best CEO advice I received throughout my career:

• trust is the most important core value
• influence > authority
• agency (can do) > intelligence (IQ)
• customer service is not a department
• sales is the hardest job in any company
• customer focus > competitor focus
• always try to add value and be helpful
• show up when it matters most to your customers
• adopt a beginner’s mindset - experts are lifelong learners
• tactics drive strategy - adapt faster
• earn a seat next to your customer, not across from her
• own it and never point fingers
• learn and use people’s names
• our job is to educate and inspire
• we are all in sales
• stay accessible, curious and humble
• people do business with people they trust, respect and like
• if you are waiting for a title to lead, you are not ready to lead
• the language of business is finance
• there are no IT projects, only business projects
• pay your best people the very best you can
• hire people based on their good judgment and high rate of learning
• in a celebration lead from the back, in a crisis lead from the front
• you are not a team because you work together - you are a team because you trust, respect and care for each other
• to improve the customer experience, start with the employee experience
• you are not taller by making others look smaller
• revenue growth ahead of expenses
• remove bad apples quickly
• leave your desk and spend time with customers
• culture is what happens when the managers leave the room
• tactics drive strategy
• there is nothing more important than our customers
• if you are waiting for a better title to lead, you are not ready to lead
• business is personal - you can be decisive and also be kind, graceful and empathetic
• recognize effort but reward outcomes
• your company is only as good as the company you keep
• your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room
• learn to speak your customer’s language
• often remind people that their work matters
• a zero sum mindset limits your growth
• your company is only as good as the company you keep
• innovation opportunities are found at the edges, not centers (how your customers serve their customers)

[Hetal Shah @hetalsha]

India maritime week is on at Nesco for this whole week. Plan your commute to work due to vehicular movement restrictions
@MTPHereToHelp @mumbaitraffic
#mumbai

[Hetal Shah @hetalsha]

No matter what time one leaves, mumbai traffic is so unpredictable that you will always reach late
#mumbai #traffic

[Hetal Shah @hetalsha]

Hating the iOS 26 update more than ever

Consumes a lot of battery
Freezes the phone for no reason
Slowdown resulting in performance issues

The design is not even pretty. Not sure why @Apple wasted their time in creating this

[Hetal Shah @hetalsha]

Traffic has once again become unbearable. Takes 2 hours to reach anywhere Even if you leave early. @MTPHereToHelp

[Hetal Shah @hetalsha]

SCLR phase 3 shut right now

#mumbaitraffic #mumbai

[Mumbai Traffic Police @MTPHereToHelp]

Due to heavy traffic on freeway, Motorists are advised to use alternate routes.

Due to political agitation, people are requested to avoid going towards CST and it's surrounding area.
#MTPTrafficUpdates

[Hetal Shah @hetalsha]

Curious to know how will the fire department use this if it’s so deeply submerged

@mumbaifireserve @mybmc

[Hetal Shah @hetalsha]

@IRCTCofficial 20452 is running late from NDLS. Please check why

[Press Trust of India @PTI_News]

"#TravelUpdate: In light of enhanced security measures across all airports, passengers are advised to arrive at the airport at least 3 hours prior to departure to ensure a smooth check-in and boarding process", posts SpiceJet (@flyspicejet)