Ria

Here to laugh, avoid being the main character, and play the Sims...🖤

[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.

[Pardes Seleh 🧜‍♀️ @PardesSeleh]

Real trad wives don’t often have the opportunity to talk on social media about their experience. Here’s the daughter of a trad wife describing what it was like for her:

[CELIA🐝 @CELIAYONCE]

NOTHING was funny on lemonade 😭😭😭😭

[𝓓𝓸𝓬_𝔃𝓮𝓮 ✧ @doc_zee7]

Me refusing to sleep because i didn't get enough time to feel like human after work

[Sisa @TheTitanBaddie]

Go to YouTube and type in the words "Janet Jackson" it's gonna change your life

[Dora Figueiredo @dorafigueiredo]

O ano é 2026 e as pessoas ainda não entenderam que fazer maquiagem permanente é burrice

[Ria @riamichelle]

@LouisPisano It's giving sailor moon or wonder woman

[mo ✮ @russellatte]

THEY NOSY AS FUCK 😭 https://t.co/OyRIRK0Cfh

[bunny sanders @whatbunnysaid]

“Told him find something stupid to play with, he picked you”

😭😭😭😭😭😭

[ICYESTTWAT @FUCCl]

Willow has been making exceptional music since she was like 10 years old. Mama was literally made for this. So excited for her new album.

[BIG BAD CHUCK ✰ @yawningemoji]

this is so scary. imagine you thinking you found the man of your dreams and this is his digital footprint

[Ryan Hall, Y’all @ryanhallyall]

For all the anti Diet Coke propogandists

[coffee @eventualforever]

what a a fucking TRAILER

[osama @0ba0sama]

She ain’t even let the joke sit in the air I’M CRYIN

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Please stop. I don’t want an AI summary of my Google search. I don’t want an AI summary of the text message from my friend at work. I don’t want an AI summary of the email I’m about to read. Please just stop.

[Vaelor💥 @vaelor0]

this is what happens when u give working class children access to the arts

[Benny Feldman @Feldfrog]

It’s just a joke dude. And the joke is just rooted in ideas. That I’m just reinforcing 😈

[gianmarco @GianmarcoSoresi]

Now ask his assistants