Comment on “Model collapse” threatens to kill progress on generative AIs
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 1 day agoI 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@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Prion diseases aren’t contagious.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You can acquire it through direct contact, i.e. consuming prion-disease-contaminated meat. What would you call it?
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Also, that’s not what direct contact means when discussing contagion:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7150340/
Ingestion is not ‘direct contact’.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 1 day 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’.