Comment on “Model collapse” threatens to kill progress on generative AIs

• PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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’.

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  • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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’.

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