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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.

[soph @sssoppphhh]

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[Anand Sanwal @asanwal]

The 4 types of college essays

[camoufly 🌟 @camouflybeats]

wait wait ... so bootlegs and soundcloud remixes are still illegal but this is a thing now? lol

[soph @sssoppphhh]

@saluteAUT I played my “worst” set ever like two weeks ago and it single handledly made me fall in love with music again. Just being able to let go and feel the crowd and not really care about fucking up transitions was a real perspective shift

[Velodus✨ @velodus]

Just throwing it out there that the lane is wiiiiiiiiide open for a tech company to get insanely rich by just replicating the 2010 version of big websites like Google while explicitly stating that they hate AI.

[Will @WillemDaFro]

holy hell 💀

[angel @angelshit]

Having a strong sense of justice in a world where nobody gaf

[mahrukh @parhloumahrukh]

ever since i was a little girl i knew i didn’t respect authority figures

[☾ @karefreekeri]

I really get a high from knowledge and doing research. The more I learn and deep dive into things I just get sooo amazed at the lives that existed, the beings that pioneered, the brains that discovered, the art that was created, the history of it all.

[misa! @misak1nz]

not the person i want to be yet but far from the person i was

[Lina Khan @linamkhan]

For years, Ticketmaster/Live Nation has abused its power against musicians, fans, and venues, dominating the live music industry while worsening it for everyone else.

This jury verdict holding that the company violated state and federal antitrust laws is a key first step towards ending Live Nation’s monopolistic control and securing real relief for those it harmed.

Congratulations to the state attorneys general who kept litigating the case after the Trump DOJ settled cheaply and bailed.

[lee ˚ ༘ 𖦹⋆｡˚ @whodfislee]

as an oldest daughter you need a partner that is useful #noshade

[W.E.B. DaBoi @Tyre_94]

What makes me angry about all this is I use to hate Elordi, but then I learned that he’s a halfway decent actor, then I watched Frankenstein and learned the kid is a certified thespian. So to see him do shit like this again just sucks personally.

[blue @bluewmist]

the best thing you can do for yourself is actively increase your surface area for luck to hit you. go outside, try new cafes, museums, events, take a new route home, speak to people, ask questions, side quest.
the more you do, the more serendipity and synchronicity will find you.

[nile @nileandah]

this is my version of an egot

[Gale Na @poisonjr]

I will get in your car and immediately start changing your EQ settings dog I'm bigger than you

[Cade Owt @TerryTwoBags]

You want a concert not a DJ