Maeve Plummer

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Elon Musk held up a chainsaw, fed USAID into the wood chipper, and at least 600,00 people have already died as a result - two-thirds of them children.

History's first trillionaire.

[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.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Never believe anyone who tells you a better world is not possible.

[PS⚡️ @Neelaasapphire]

Sugar cane women workers in India HAVE THEIR UTERUS REMOVED to avoid missing a single day of work.

This is where your misogyny should end and voice the inhumane working conditions of people across the world!

[goma @soigomaa]

cool, cant wait to never hear about it again

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Lazzyyyyyy @em_Lazzy]

Zohran Mamdani turning a prison into a nonprofit grocery store says everything...less punishment, more basic needs. That’s the direction politics should go!!!!

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Zohran just announced that the first NYC city-run grocery store will open in the Bronx by the end of the year.

The 20,000 square foot store will open in Hunts Point at The Peninsula, an 100% affordable housing complex.

[Mar @_martremblay]

Perfect sequel! Loved the fact that it didn’t just rely on nostalgia, but also made a point on some issues we’re dealing with in the industry right now. 10/10, no notes.

[duchess of arrakis @thisisnefertiti]

Women abandon all critical thinking under the guise of “sex positivity” LOL like I’ve never understood why so called feminists go so hard for men’s rights to watch porn

[Heather @perksofbeingHC]

I think a lot of millennial women are in denial about the bullshit we were subjected to by the choice feminist, fake sex positivity of the 2010s, and I think when Gen-z women see through the shit we fell for, it makes them feel stupid, so they lash out :/

[Not pregnant just eating good.. @I_Hate_Ted_Cruz]

Choice feminists the moment a woman makes a choice that doesn't make men happy:

[kat @queermediabait]

btw to everyone who said they care abt love stories & queer/poc representation — this is ur chance to show up for lesbians the same way u do for gay men. franchaela is a queer romance w/ a black woman as a lead! in a show that won’t get cancelled! there’s no reason to not tune in

[c ۶ৎ @isceadoll]

when y’all are reading a book, do you also suddenly put the book down for a while after a jaw-dropping scene and stare at nothing for a few seconds like there’s a secret camera filming your reaction then start talking about what you just read to absolutely no one

[sarah @heavenbrat]

idk girl sometimes you need to crash out and be a bitch so you dont get an auto immune disease

[Lazzyyyyyy @em_Lazzy]

Mamdani taxed the rich and suddenly libraries work, potholes get fixed, childcare exists, and workers get paid more.
That's why billionaires are losing it and want him gone!!!

[Lauren @gothamshitty]

“Is my BF cheating by watching porn” is less of an important question to me than “is it OK that my BF is getting off to extremely reactionary media made by an industry that trafficks and rapes to operate”

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Inflation is at a three-year high. Everything costs more — groceries, gas, healthcare, a plane ticket.

The math is simple. Every American dollar spent overseas on war is a dollar that could’ve been spent here at home to pay for a dignified life. It's time we change the equation.

[🗣️ @malesshutup]

gee i wonder why the generation of women who are dealing with the most porn addicted generation of men yet have some issues w pornography