As AI-generated content fills the Internet, it’s corrupting the training data for models to come. What happens when AI eats itself?
As AI-generated content fills the Internet, it’s corrupting the training data for models to come. What happens when AI eats itself?
Dead internet theory seems like a completely inevitable future place that we’re all racing to. I don’t see any way to avoid it. It’s a tragedy of the commons in a place where there is no organizing body that can step in and prevent private actors from destroying everything. Worse, we’re more concerned with those private actors being strong and competitive which is only accelerating us towards the doomed endgame.