Nicou

still in Seoul.
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[Nicou @nkindustrys]

thie makes me happy

[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.

[Nicou @nkindustrys]

@Nore_MCC 1. SICK!
2. SICK!
3. SICK!

[Nicou @nkindustrys]

@rite_ting @ultras_antifaa Don't host the world cup then dummy

[Nicou @nkindustrys]

@BORNHEADACHE @NicholasCraven_ Inshallah

[Nicou @nkindustrys]

@NicholasCraven_ akai solo

[Nicou @nkindustrys]

idolo

[No Context Tobey Maguire @OocTobeyM]

Tobey Maguire won an estimated $36 million playing underground poker in Hollywood over 3 years

He played against DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Texas billionaires

Molly Bloom said his skills were “on another level”

Phil Hellmuth said “this kid could be a legitimate pro”

Spider-Man was the best poker player in the room

[Nicou @nkindustrys]

@Nore_MCC Off cohesion alone it's S&TS, both unreal tho musically one isn't better than the other

[Nicou @nkindustrys]

@unclesthoughts Take your time

VERONA > LONDON 03.06 13:28

[Uncle's Thoughts @unclesthoughts]

If I am god
You are god
If we are god
God exists

[Nicou @nkindustrys]

@Nore_MCC u obviously haven't #ascended yet gang

[Nicou @nkindustrys]

no joke they all look like my dad

[Football on TNT Sports @footballontnt]

This photo gets better with every passing season 📸🏆

[Nicou @nkindustrys]

@LiveAt2elve was/is Alhan detrimental to black spaces? genuinely curious

[Nicou @nkindustrys]

Hilarious arrangement of words

[☀️AliquisNovus☀️ @PalmyrPar]

Sensitive and Tall Young Englishwoman Vanessa Kirby cuckolded and shamed by oriental temptress Dua Lipa - many such cases!

[Nicou @nkindustrys]

I was there

[Nicou @nkindustrys]

Started another account for niche art/music/neuroscience threads and poetry dumps. Safe ♥️

[Uncle's Thoughts @unclesthoughts]

Kanye West's 'When I See It ft. Caroline Shaw' never got a proper release. High chance you've never even heard of it... 🧵

[Uncle's Thoughts @unclesthoughts]

Kanye West's 'When I See It ft. Caroline Shaw' never got a proper release. High chance you've never even heard of it... 🧵

[Danis @DanisMCFC]

The only manager to speak up about the genocides in Palestine and Sudan, Pep Guardiola whether you love him or hate him is a big loss for the premier league

[Nicou @nkindustrys]

@Skepta If you ain't seen this you ain't lived

https://t.co/VeGghZdwwW

[GRITCULT @GRITCULT]

99% of people i talk to think too small

if youre reading this, statistically, this is you. youre thinking too small. and the worst part is you already know it. you feel it in your chest every time you talk yourself out of something. that quiet voice in the back of your head that knows youre meant for more, and you keep telling it to shut up

youve forgotten how to dream

remember when you were 7? you wanted to be an astronaut. a fighter pilot. the best in the world at whatever you touched. nobody had taught you to shrink yet. then somewhere between then and now, you learned to "be realistic." you learned to want less. you learned to call ambition arrogance and call mediocrity humility

thats the psyop. and you fell for it

napoleon was 5'6, from a backwater island, didnt even speak french properly. crowned himself emperor before 35

alexander wept at 25 because there were no more worlds left to conquer

you think youre being humble. youre being a coward.

wake up

start thinking big again. obscenely big. the kind of big that makes your friends uncomfortable when you say it out loud.

"if your goals dont sound delusional to the average person, theyre too small."

half the work of achieving anything is believing its possible. literally half. the man who believes he can run through the wall has already done more than the man who studies how thick it is.

you dont need a plan first. you dont need permission. you dont need conditions to be perfect. you just need to remember who you were before the world taught you to settle for a life you wouldnt have agreed to as a child.

dream like a child. work like a man. trust god.

[Nicou @nkindustrys]

Off the strength I'm not as numb as I thought