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[Mikal Skuterud @mikalskuterud]

Canadian innovation stifled again.

[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.

[Wahnman @wahnman]

@MarathonDevTeam daily you say?

[HaloRises117 @HaloRises117]

Sponsored Survival Update! 👇

[Andy Cole @AndyCole1984]

Big FIFI World Cup guy

[Synth Potato🥔 @SynthPotato]

The perception of Death Stranding going from “the entire world relying on deliveries? thats the dumbest idea ever!” to being downright prophetic in just a few months after release was insane to see.

Hideo Kojima has always been a visionary but DS1 predicted the future too well

[R @robinknight92]

RT @EmergencyInfoBC: Officials have evaluated the recent M7.3 earthquake that occurred 55 miles (88 KM) South of Sand Point, Alaska and the…

[DriveBC @DriveBC]

⛔️#BCHwy4 CLOSED in both directions near Kennedy Lake due to water and rocks on road. Expect major delays. ℹ️ https://t.co/Wcpb3ggZu9 #Tofino #Ucluelet #PacificRimHwy

[EmergencyInfoBC @EmergencyInfoBC]

The River Forecast Centre has issued:
•A Flood WARNING for the Chilcotin River upstream of the landslide near Farwell Canyon
•A Flood WATCH for the Chilcotin River downstream of the landslide near Farwell Canyon & Fraser River downstream to #HopeBC
More info: https://t.co/gw0BawoTBH #BCFlood

[StratCann🌱 @StratCann]

FAAFO Cannabis says micro is the way to go https://t.co/mYRwlUNHpQ

[Kyp Rowe @KypRowe]

This is one of the most valid explanations of dark vs white ash I have read. At the end of the day does it stay lit? Did it taste good? Do you really feel the need to be a reddit warrior to feel heard? 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
https://t.co/l0EPDqom4p.

[David Alter @davidalter]

Koné 🇨🇦

[Strombone @strombone1]

What a night!!!!

[drowbb @drowbb]

On a road trip through Salmon Arm this summer? You gotta stop by BCs first cannabis farmgate store!

[Nostalgia @nostalgiaa]

11.

[DOOM @DOOM]

seen some things #DOOM30

[R @robinknight92]

@Visaman @CTVVancouver You seem like a gem of a person

[R @robinknight92]

@ExiledPaddy62 @SquidgeRugby Might be missing the point of the tweet

[R @robinknight92]

Tofino Sundazzzz…

[Tommy Chong @tommychong]

Hey Can you find the blunt man ?