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What are they going to do in 5 years when the internet is 99% slop? How will then train the models then? Will we be forever stuck with 2025-2026 models because there isnt enough new human content to train on?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_collapse?wprov=sfla1
It's called model collapse, and actually it'll get worse not just stay the same.
They are going to do what they always do: gaslight us, hype some other dumb product as the next smartphone/internet/etc, and further monetize everything
The Chinese models are way ahead of this, training smartly and frugally instead of on a huge quantity. They don’t really need more internet to work fine as tools.
…And they share data with each other, and ignore copyright. Seemingly. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Chinese govt is providing a lot of data to them.
Also, it turns out multilingual training works very well. So even if the English internet turns to slop, other languages may fare better.
Money line go up in the short term. Who cares if they're creating a hallucinating slop ouroboros that will ruin the internet for the foreseeable future? That's the next CEO's problem!
You half-joke, but it is not a joke: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
There really is no product too big, no sacrifice too self-destructive if it makes the line go up next quarter.
What about this coherent answer that I am composing for you? Clearly ten mice brains carefully placed over silicone chips can compute prime numbers much faster than 20 undergrads ever could. So who fo you want in your laptop? Ten rats, just more Pentium, 20 undergrads, or windows 25?