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How is it possible that all of them just started to appear at the same time? Is it possible that those models were designed and trained in a last few weeks? Has some "magic key" to content generation been just unexpectedly discovered? Or the topic became trendy and everyone is just publishing what they've got so far, so they hope to benefit from media attention?

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This is why

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/xwdzr5/the_num...

As pointed out in the comments of that thread, if you make the same graph of all papers on arXiv by year (instead of just AI+ML), it would look roughly the same.

Which speaks more about the growth of popularity of arXiv or the total number publications, rather than AI+ML specifically.

> the topic became trendy and everyone is just publishing what they've got so far, so they hope to benefit from media attention?

Presumably people are scrambling to publish what they have, so it is clear what work is independent and what is derivative.

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