Jordan

Bad tweeter. Cat dad. Procrastinator

[Big Action Bill @BigActionBill]

“You following the World Cup?”

me:

[Jordan @JDASH325]

@tyhildenbrandt @FIFAcom Not a sponsor, could be!

[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.

[Jordan @JDASH325]

I think we could/should start a movement to put Chuck as a write-in candidate for various local elections

First city: San Antonio

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

Charles Barkley hopes ESPN fires him over Cardi B comment https://t.co/8qY2Y5H1GJ

[Jordan @JDASH325]

3 of the 4 astronauts here could be Mike Tirico, I can't tell

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: NASA unveils the Artemis III crew set to launch in 2027, consisting of three Americans & one Italian astronaut.

[crawf @crawf34]

hey, tell them there’s a pedophile in attendance

[Jordan @JDASH325]

@jpgilbert Private planes from the Bible Belt to Japan for a 2* transfer will take time to get the message boards popping

But I see the vision!

[Jordan @JDASH325]

@jpgilbert Sumo wrestlers (OL/DL candidates) view the season calendar, playoff expansion, and the increase of neutral site games as dishonorable

[Brooks Austin @BrooksAustinBA]

@PeteThamel Hot take:

This was all a planned act so Sorsby could get his own Heisman odds at NUCLEAR juice

[Jordan @JDASH325]

What's your biggest financial flex?
My trust fund was built on rug pulls

[SMU Athletics @SMUMustangs]

Mustang Partners has announced an innovative partnership with Krida to launch Mustang Coin.

➡️ https://t.co/12HtMwGEkf

[SD @SD36036]

Marcus Freeman getting ready for the season

[Nato Jacobs @dcmadness202]

Putting Myles Garrett and Aaron Donald together on the same defensive line is definitely outlawed by the Geneva Convention

[Jordan @JDASH325]

@BarstoolBigCat First time I've seen LBs = IQ

[Jordan @JDASH325]

Good morning @howthemonkee
Did I just read that Miami tied UF 8-8 in the 5th, could have gotten out of the 6th with the score still tied but walked multiple UF batters with bases loaded, and ultimately got shelled into oblivion to lose 22-10??

[Cody Campbell @CodyC64]

@LTHDiesel @JeremyTTUsports Oklahoma Drill. My back yard. Tonight. Better tape your ankles.

[Jordan @JDASH325]

@stevehunsaker1 Something's getting broken big dog 🫡

[Luka Donthičć @landahoy14]

imagine loving your boys this much #free2

[Jordan @JDASH325]

If he doesn't believe in you the Brendan Sorsby believed in the IU QB room, he's not worth it sis

[Luka Donthičć @landahoy14]

imagine loving your boys this much #free2

[Bud Elliott @BudElliott3]

Did some research this morning on playoff performance in the full NIL+Portal era (23-present) v the same number of playoff games before

“Everyone was paying players before” is a wildly oversimplified false equivalence.

Argue amongst yourselves

[Jordan @JDASH325]

@jpgilbert Carrying boats + drinking firewater
Frost 🤝 Woods