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[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

How many of these books will just be totally garbage nonsense just so they could fulfill a prearranged quota.

Now the LLM are filled with a good amount of nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Just use the llm to make the books that the llm then uses, what could go wrong?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Someone's probably already coined the term, but I'm going to call it LLM inbreeding.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

I suggested this term in academic circles, as a joke.

I also suggested hallucinations ~3-6 years ago only to find out it was ALSO suggested in the 1970s.

Inbreeding, lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

In computer science, garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) is the concept that flawed, biased or poor quality ("garbage") information or input produces a result or output of similar ("garbage") quality. The adage points to the need to improve data quality in, for example, programming.

There was some research article applying this 70s computer science concept to LLMs. It was published in Nature and hit major news outlets. Basically they further trained GPT on its output for a couple generations, until the model degraded terribly. Sounded obvious to me, but seeing it happen on the www is painful nonetheless...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The real term is synthetic data

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

but it amounts to about the same

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

sort of

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It's quite similar to another situation known as data incest

[–] thesporkeffect 3 points 1 month ago

Soylent AI? Auto-infocannibalism

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It can only go right because corporations must be punished for trying to replace people with machines.

[–] poplargrove 4 points 1 month ago

That would be terrible because they are both some of the best academic publishers in the humanities.