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.
First Albania, now Italy!
There is a nationwide general strike across 75 cities in Italy demanding a complete boycott of Israel. There is suspension of transport and schools have paused as thousands marched for Palestine.
Unions and citizens are united to demand an end to genocide and show support for Palestinian rights.
When will Americans follow suit?
🎆 🏝️ Albanians successfully repelled Israeli backed mercenaries attempting to shield construction in the protected wetlands on Sazan island, where endangered flamingos nest.
Rothschild is trying to create Epstein island 2.0 since he also paid for Epstein’s island. He took Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump on a Yacht to Sazan island, which was an ex-Soviet military base with a nuclear bunker. They made it their “private island” by bribing officials with pennies (1.4 billion) . How can Albanian land become Ivanka’s private land?
This is how you take your country back from Israel, by force.
Albanians continue to gather in droves to prevent the sale of their lands to Jared and Ivanka Kushner to build Epstein Island 2.0.
We should all be following this example.
Cuban medical personnel have saved over 6 million lives since 1995. They are the largest contributor to medical internationalism on Earth.
No failed state does that.
It is a besieged state.