Stephanie Knight

Co-Founder & Adult Supervision @ No Nerds No Problem

[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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The market economy is a reflection of the divine order here on Earth

[Milei in English - Official Account @jmilei_english]

Man did not invent capitalism. He discovered it by obeying the Ten Commandments. When we align ourselves with this law, we can bring Paradise to Earth.
LONG LIVE FREEDOM, DAMN IT...!!!

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@BladeDoc @RNSuperHero @ffmichelle No it doesn’t take chronic use, just one surgery or procedure can make it dangerous in people with MTHFR. There are other anesthesia options.

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If you look at the details of this case, the killer was the long-ago ex-boyfriend of Gret’s wife. He wrote a manifesto, flew in from out of state, went to their house in the middle of the night with a weapon, broke in, and shot Gret in his own bed. So much planning and premeditation, how in the world can this be the plea deal? Gret was a great man who had a young family, ran a nonprofit that was doing true humanitarian work and had his whole life ahead of him. Terribly unjust outcome.

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@BladeDoc @RNSuperHero @ffmichelle Causes hyperhomocysteinemia. People with MTHFR variants are at greater risk.

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What I have learned is to never ever go to a PA for an issue that requires problem-solving. They are fine for obvious problems like a skin infection that needs abx or a laceration that needs stitches. But for stuff that requires judgement & nuanced problem solving, they are not trained or qualified to do that.

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@allie__voss Aaand I see literally no one else here mentioned ancient Christian music lol

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@allie__voss Joseph Yazbeck. Psalm chants like Polyeleos; there’s a particularly good recording of one on YouTube from St. Catherine’s Monastery that I like to play before bed. Gregorian chant.

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@artinsociety I love Joaquin Sorolla’s art. We lived in Valencia and two of my children were born there. His paintings capture the feeling of living there—the light, the beach, the sea—even 100 years later.

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It’s true. While I don’t gain much weight during pregnancy and drop most of it very quickly, longer term breastfeeding (>6 months) makes my body hold onto an extra ~10lbs of fat. No amount of diet restriction or exercise reduces it. I just have to accept being chubby while breastfeeding. But it comes right off after weaning.

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@mSanterre @uncledoomer One of them is very sick now. It’s sad, my kids won’t remember them. They didn’t use the time they had wisely.

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Europe’s ability to consistently choose the most self-injurious economic path is astonishing.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Netherlands’ House of Representatives has approved a 36% tax on unrealized capital gains.

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@avidseries What’s wrong with ritual?

[Tired Peasant @HorrorGorl]

Our millennial experience of girlhood was directly tied to the most powerful sexual predators in modern history.

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@alysonlawless @HorrorGorl This video and these posts are Millennial women talking to one another about the supremely messed up body culture we grew up in. We’re allowed to do that. You can ignore if it bothers you so much.

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@namyakhann @claudeai @framer Landing

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@WSJ There haven’t been enough media layoffs

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@CovfefeAnon ~80% of autoimmune diseases are diagnosed in women. Are lupus, Hashimoto’s and MS fake?

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@alexathallow Having a sick older child at home with the baby is scary but baby will probably be totally fine as long as mom keeps breastfeeding!