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

• Stern@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I use the “Sistermother and me are gonna have a baby!” example personally, but I am a awful human so

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• BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not shit, but isn’t that what brought about mad cow disease? Farmers were feeding cattle brain matter that had infected prions. Idk if it was cows eating cow brains or other animals though.

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  • _cnt0@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It was the remains of fish which we ground into powder and fed to other fish and sheep, whose remains we ground into powder and fed to other sheep and cows, whose remains we ground to powder and fed to other cows.

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    • Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So yes. That’s what’s happening.

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Maybe the internet will get a prion and die

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• leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Photocopy of a photocopy is my go-to metaphor for model collapse.

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