AI trained on AI garbage spits out AI garbage

Discussion (248 points, 1 day ago, 175 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41058194

Apparently different articles?

It's the same underlying story, which is more or less the criterion we use for identifying duplicate (or at least 'related') discussions on HN.

Thanks! Macroexpanded:

AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41058194 - July 2024 (175 comments)

The problem of 'model collapse': how a lack of human data limits AI progress - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41058867 - July 2024 (15 comments)

I would like to hear what kind of mental model of the world you have if you thought otherwise.

Well what else could it be? After all ai is just polynomial approximation in essence.