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'Some Signs of AI Model Collapse Begin To Reveal Themselves'
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes in an op-ed for The Register: I use AI a lot, but not to write stories. I use AI for search. When it comes to search, AI, especially Perplexity, is simply better than Google. Ordinary search has gone to the dogs. Maybe as Google goes gaga for AI, its search engine w...
In particular, I'm finding that when I search for hard data such as market-share statistics or other business numbers, the results often come from bad sources. This occurs because errors compound across successive model generations, leading to distorted data distributions and "irreversible defects" in performance. Still, if we believe OpenAI's leader and cheerleader, Sam Altman, who tweeted in February 2024 that "OpenAI now generates about 100 billion words per day," and we presume many of those words end up online, it won't take long.
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