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“Model collapse” threatens to kill progress on generative AIs (bigthink.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Stern to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Ah, the Hapsburg of AI!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh, the artificial humanity!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Are you confusing the Habsburg Dynasty with the Hindenburg?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Perhapsburg they are

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, I just thought they were vaguely similar enough words to make a dumb internet joke.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're right, that's a good dumb internet joke. I'm just being needlessly pedantic today.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 9 points 2 months ago

I see your needless pedantry and raise you abrasive grammarian.

[–] PapaStevesy 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I like to think of it like a Mad Cow or Kuru, you can't eat your own species's brains or you could get a super lethal, contagious prion disease.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Prion diseases aren’t contagious.

Edit: for the uninformed people that downvoted - clearly spelled out here https://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/neurologic-disorders/prion-diseases/overview-of-prion-diseases

[–] PapaStevesy 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You can acquire it through direct contact, i.e. consuming prion-disease-contaminated meat. What would you call it?

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce 1 points 1 month ago

Also, that's not what direct contact means when discussing contagion:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7150340/

Ingestion is not 'direct contact'.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce 1 points 1 month ago

Contagious means you can get it from direct or indirect contact with another person or organism that is infected. Not from eating them.

That is not possible with prion disease.

Ingesting a Petri dish full of flu virus doesn’t make the Petri dish ‘contagious’.

[–] ZILtoid1991 1 points 1 month ago

If only the generated output also looked more and more like how inbred humans do.

Like insane rambling from LLMs, and the humans generated by AI had various developmental disorders and the Habsburg jaw.