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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Every single one of us, as kids, learned the concept of "garbage in, garbage out"; most likely in terms of diet and food intake.

And yet every AI cultist makes the shocked pikachu face when they figure out that trying to improve your LLM by feeding it on data generated by literally the inferior LLM you're trying to improve, is an exercise in diminishing returns and generational degradation in quality.

Why has the world gotten both "more intelligent" and yet fundamentally more stupid at the same time? Serious question.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 hour ago

Because the people with power funding this shit have pretty much zero overlap with the people making this tech. The investors saw a talking robot that aced school exams, could make images and videos and just assumed it meant we have artificial humans in the near future and like always, ruined another field by flooding it with money and corruption. These people only know the word "opportunity", but don't have the resources or willpower to research that "opportunity".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 50 minutes ago

Oh no. Anyways...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

oh no are we gonna have to appreciate the art of human beings? ew. what if they want compensation‽

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

If mainstream blogs are writing about it, what would make someone think that AI companies haven't thoroughly dissected the problem and are already working on filtering out AI fingerprints from the training data set? If they can make a sophisticated LLM, chances are they can find methods to XOR out generated content.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

What would make me think that they haven't "thoroughly dissected" it yet is that I'm a skeptic, and since I'm a skeptic I don't immediately and without evidence believe that every industry is capable of identifying, dissecting, and solving every problem with its products.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Sooner or later it is supposed to happen, but I don't think we are quite there....Yet.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 hours ago

Fake news, just like that one time Nightshade "killed" stable diffusion (literally had no effect) Flux came out not long ago and it's better than ever

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

is it not relatively trivial to pre-vet content before they train it? at least with aigen text it should be.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The problem is these AI companies currently exist on the business model of not paying for information, and that generally includes not wanting to pay content curators.

Google is probably the only one in a position to potentially outsource by making everyone solve a "does this hand look normal to you" CAPTCHA

They can try and train AI to detect AI, but that's also difficult.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago

So it's not a problem with AI. It's just a problem for some mayfly companies that try to profit from the latest trend?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

It depends on what you are looking for. Identifying AI generated data is generally hard, though it can be done in specific cases. There is no mathematical difference between the 1s and 0s that encoded AI generated data and any other data. Which is why these model collapse ideas are just fantasy. There is nothing magical about any data that makes it "poisonous" to AI. The kernel of truth behind these ideas is not likely to matter in practice.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Kind of like how true thoughts and opinions on complex topics are boiled down to digestible concepts for others to understand who then perpetuate those concepts without understanding them and the meaning degrades and we dont think anymore, just repeat stuff in social media comments.

Side note... this article sucks and seems like it was ai generated. Repetitive and no author credit? Just says it was originally posted elsewhere.

Generative AI isnt in danger of being killed as this clickbait titled suggests... just hindered.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 46 minutes ago (1 children)

By chance, is that based on other peoples succinct social media comments on ai?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 minutes ago (1 children)

No. I simply don't see a plausible scenario for that. The social media comments are quite deplorable. You really have to look for bubbles with educated people. I don't know why this gets so much traction. Maybe it's because the copyright industry likes it, or maybe it feeds some psychological need like Intelligent Design.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 minutes ago

Cant blame me for asking :)

Seems like tools to recognize ai content to prevent synthetic input avoids model degredation.

If those tools are up to the task then i would agree it probably doesnt hinder model training. Not sure what the reality is, or if the need for those tools creates a barrier to entry for a significant portion of those trying to create models with internet-crawled data.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago

More like degenerative AIs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

"Model collapse" is just a fancy way of saying "our stupid ideas are bad and nobody wants them."

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago

Wait now hold on a minute. Why would I want to do this? Is this activism by people against LLMs in general or..? I'm confused as to why I would want to do this.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It is their own fault for poisoning the internet with their slop.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

In case anyone doesn't get what's happening, imagine feeding an animal nothing but its own shit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago

Photocopy of a photocopy is my go-to metaphor for model collapse.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 19 hours ago

I use the "Sistermother and me are gonna have a baby!" example personally, but I am a awful human so

[–] [email protected] 17 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Not shit, but isn't that what brought about mad cow disease? Farmers were feeding cattle brain matter that had infected prions. Idk if it was cows eating cow brains or other animals though.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

It was the remains of fish which we ground into powder and fed to other fish and sheep, whose remains we ground into powder and fed to other sheep and cows, whose remains we ground to powder and fed to other cows.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Old news? Seems to be a subject of several papers for some time now. Synthetic data has been used successfully already for very specific domains.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Yup, old news and wrong news. Also so many people who hate AI but don't understand how it works. Pretty disappointing for a technology community.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

…………………. Good?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Tbh I'm a bit lost on the purpose of this

[–] [email protected] 17 points 17 hours ago

The solution for this is usually counter training. Granted my experience is on the opposite end training ai vision systems to id real objects.

So you train up your detector ai on hand tagged images. When it gets good you use it to train a generator ai until the generator is good at fooling the detector.

Then you train the detector on new tagged real data and the new ai generated data. Once it's good at detection again you train the generator ai on the new detector.

Repeate several times and you usually get a solid detector and a good generator as a side effect.

The thing is you need new real human tagged data for each new generation. None of the companies want to generate new human tagged data sets as it's expensive.

[–] [email protected] 152 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Let's go, already!

How you can help: If you run a website and can filter traffic by user agent, get a list of the known AI scrapers agent strings and selectively redirect their requests to pre-generated AI slop. Regular visitors will see the content and the LLM scraper bots will scrape their own slop and, hopefully, train on it.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

This would ideally become standardized among web servers with an option to easily block various automated aggregators.

Regardless, all of us combined are a grain of rice compared to the real meat and potatoes AI trains on - social media, public image storage, copyrighted media, etc. All those sites with extensive privacy policies who are signing contracts to permit their content for training.

Without laws (and I'm not sure I support anything in this regard yet), I do not see AI progress slowing. Clearly inbreeding AI models has a similar effect as in nature. Fortunately there is enough original digital content out there that this does not need to happen.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Model collapse is just a euphemism for “we ran out of stuff to steal”

[–] [email protected] 30 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

It's more ''we are so focused on stealing and eating content, we're accidently eating the content we or other AI made, which is basically like incest for AI, and they're all inbred to the point they don't even know people have more than two thumb shaped fingers anymore."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

All such news make me want to live to the time when our world is interesting again. Real AI research, something new instead of the Web we have, something new instead of the governments we have. It's just that I'm scared of what's between now and then. Parasites die hard.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

More like... Degenerative AI *ba dum tsss

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

Good riddance.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

remember how nfts feel off (due to how they lost their value) have a theory that ais will come to the same fate cause they cannot train (it according to the article?)

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This sounds like AI is literally biting its own tail

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