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A perfect example of a closed system trap, where incestuous combining of increasingly degraded information leads to system collapse. An analogy would be excessive interbreeding in a biological population...
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There's a piece in The Register about this. If model collapse is inescapable, then what? GIGO and AI text becomes completely unreliable. The fall of the machines?
"Our concern, and why we're raising this now, is that there's quite a degree of irreversibility. If you've completely contaminated all your datasets, all the data environments, and there'll be several of them, if they're completely contaminated, it's very hard to undo.
"Now, it's not clear to what extent model collapse will be a problem, but if it is a problem, and we've contaminated this data environment, cleaning is going to be prohibitively expensive, probably impossible."
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They might have to start again. Train them on pre-2022 data, then tag all new AI data based on that model, and only that AI data can continue training AI. Or something like that.
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They'll have to solve the hallucination problem before they try that though or the cycle will just repeat. I'd think at some point you have to allow data-scraping again anyway.
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Hallucinating AI! Takes me back to the 70s... 

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Next they'll be wearing cardigans!
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Nobody can tell me the point of AI. What is it?
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and in certain things it far exceeds individual human capability ...seeing things, deriving patterns a human cannot.AI Overview
The primary point of AI is to simulate human intelligence in machines, enabling them to perform tasks that typically require human-like cognitive abilities. This includes reasoning, learning, problem-solving, and decision-making. AI aims to enhance efficiency, automate processes, and provide insights across various fields, ultimately improving how we live and work.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-21/ ... /105440772
Australian workers are facing a major upheaval as artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a cheaper alternative to employing humans.
While the full impact of AI is yet to be reflected in job ads or official employment statistics, both employers and employees warn the technology is already reshaping the nation's labour market.
It took recent data science graduate Tien Hung Nguyen 30 applications and an internship to land his first full-time job.
"I feel privileged to have secured this position. I'm going to give everything I've got," he says.
Most of his friends are still looking for work — and he says artificial intelligence is a big reason why.
"Since AI appeared, for example, a team might have needed three or four juniors and a senior. Now, it's one junior and AI," Mr Nguyen explains.
"There are fewer opportunities for young graduates."
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It will help you find the needle in a haystack.
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...more like relying on your own excrement as a primary food source!
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Seems a lot of the jobs were just nodes in an algorithm anyway. But AI isn't going to lift you in and out of the bath or shimmy your front door at 2am when you've locked the keys inside.JimC wrote: ↑Sat Jun 21, 2025 9:08 pmhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-21/ ... /105440772
Australian workers are facing a major upheaval as artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a cheaper alternative to employing humans.
While the full impact of AI is yet to be reflected in job ads or official employment statistics, both employers and employees warn the technology is already reshaping the nation's labour market.
It took recent data science graduate Tien Hung Nguyen 30 applications and an internship to land his first full-time job.
"I feel privileged to have secured this position. I'm going to give everything I've got," he says.
Most of his friends are still looking for work — and he says artificial intelligence is a big reason why.
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...or a noodle in a Hubei snack.

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A description and name for a particular version of AI (LLM) failure-- 'potemkin understanding.'
A preprint version of the paper is available.Researchers from MIT, Harvard, and the University of Chicago have proposed the term "potemkin understanding" to describe a newly identified failure mode in large language models that ace conceptual benchmarks but lack the true grasp needed to apply those concepts in practice.
It comes from accounts of fake villages – Potemkin villages – constructed at the behest of Russian military leader Grigory Potemkin to impress Empress Catherine II.
The academics are differentiating "potemkins" from "hallucination," which is used to describe AI model errors or mispredictions. In fact, there's more to AI incompetence than factual mistakes; AI models lack the ability to understand concepts the way people do, a tendency suggested by the widely used disparaging epithet for large language models, "stochastic parrots."
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Here's one example of "potemkin understanding" cited in the paper. Asked to explain the ABAB rhyming scheme, OpenAI's GPT-4o did so accurately, responding, "An ABAB scheme alternates rhymes: first and third lines rhyme, second and fourth rhyme."
Yet when asked to provide a blank word in a four-line poem using the ABAB rhyming scheme, the model responded with a word that didn't rhyme appropriately. In other words, the model correctly predicted the tokens to explain the ABAB rhyme scheme without the understanding it would have needed to reproduce it.
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Large language models (LLMs) are regularly evaluated using benchmark datasets. But what justifies making inferences about an LLM's capabilities based on its answers to a curated set of questions? This paper first introduces a formal framework to address this question. The key is to note that the benchmarks used to test LLMs -- such as AP exams -- are also those used to test people. However, this raises an implication: these benchmarks are only valid tests if LLMs misunderstand concepts in ways that mirror human misunderstandings. Otherwise, success on benchmarks only demonstrates potemkin understanding: the illusion of understanding driven by answers irreconcilable with how any human would interpret a concept. We present two procedures for quantifying the existence of potemkins: one using a specially designed benchmark in three domains, the other using a general procedure that provides a lower-bound on their prevalence. We find that potemkins are ubiquitous across models, tasks, and domains. We also find that these failures reflect not just incorrect understanding, but deeper internal incoherence in concept representations.
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