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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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[–] 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

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’.

[–] 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'.