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[Sowmya @rosesfortweets]

@godavarx 😍😍😍

[We don't deserve cats 😺 @catsareblessing]

The goat was practicing a charge, but my cat thought it was a sign of affection.

[Goodreads @goodreads]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that....... your library holds come all at once

[Harsh @Kahaniistaan]

Prof Nivedita Menon in one of her lectures posed a question before us- what if the ‘dancing girl’ from harappan civilisation was not a dancer but a warrior? We were reading Stuart Hall and constructivism. I remember the entire class was baffled. No one had heard
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[Goodreads @goodreads]

The best books make you feel less alone 🤎

[Sowmya @rosesfortweets]

@godavarx Teehee

[Alice Mills @millsalice144]

The earliest humans to walk aimlessly were called Meanderthals

[abhishek singh @agneeastra]

@PMOIndia no single AI model from India no infra and no support for AI startups. No respect for Indian talented youth they all are leaving India, high taxes for common people and daily items, extreme hate in the society. Are these the solutions?

[Sowmya @rosesfortweets]

LOL

[Aam Cockroach Party @SqaureDotCom]

@PMOIndia Sir vo phale Petrol se ganne ka juice to hata do

[Anti-National INDIAN @tushar_240287]

@PMOIndia

[अब्दुल अमेठी @abdul_amethi]

Ten years of temple shows, photo-ops, and drama, weak on jobs, economy, and real progress.

Fake GDP: Numbers hide joblessness.
Fake nationalism: Empty slogans.
Fake industrialists: Power over innovation.
Fake media: Controlled and biased.
Fake experts: Loud but shallow.
Fake celebrities:
Fame built on PR.
Dollar vs Rupee: At 100, shows stress and rising prices.

[Sandeep Manudhane @sandeep_PT]

They have zero empathy, are almost justifying the killings, and have accepted a slave/vassal status under USA's boots already. These are extreme cowards, who are selling our dignity away. Dark times.

[Goodreads @goodreads]

reading outside just hits different

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

So, a lot of you are miserable because you won’t make a basic effort to be socially presentable. You think it’s beneath you to engage in small talk or show interest in the lives of others. Your refusal to be kind and attentive is a moral failing, and it will keep you lonely.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

We need a “Not interested, this is AI” button or a proper AI blocker. The algorithm needs to learn how badly most people don’t want AI slop.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

Cities are so much more alive when we give back street space to people and not cars.

[Sandeep Manudhane @sandeep_PT]

My real worry is not what the American government now thinks of Indian lives.

My worry is what the Indian government now thinks of Indian lives.

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[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.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Yesterday someone tried to tell me we're better off without literacy because writing is a means of control. My friend, those who seek your oppression don't want you literate. The ability to read & communicate is our best defense against tyranny. And they're taking it from us.

[Andy Masley @AndyMasley]

New Yorker recently. This idea will never die.