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AI Appears to Rapidly Be Approaching Brick Wall Where It Can't Get Smarter

Researchers warn that companies like OpenAI and Google could soon run out of human-written training data for their AI models.

Researchers are ringing the alarm bells, warning that companies like OpenAI and Google are rapidly running out of human-written training data for their AI models. The controversial trend has already led to publishers, including the New York Times, suing OpenAI over copyright infringement for using their material to train AI models. The latest paper, authored by researchers at San Francisco-based think tank Epoch, suggests that the sheer amount of text data AI models are being trained on is growing roughly 2.5 times a year.

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