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AI models could devour all of the internet’s written knowledge by 2026


A new estimate suggests that AI could use up all of the internet’s text data within the next few years. The next recourse could be private information, a new study warns.

AI models such as GPT-4, which powers ChatGPT, or Claude 3 Opus rely on the many trillions of words shared online to get smarter, but new projections suggest they will exhaust the supply of publicly-available data sometime between 2026 and 2032. Google's Gemini AI, which infamously recommended that people add glue to their pizzas or eat rocks, sourced some of its answers from Reddit posts and articles from the satirical website The Onion. This has made tech leaders attempt to develop nuclear fusion startups to fuel their hungry data centers, although the nascent power generation method is still far from viable.

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