You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice. You thought it was you. It is not you. Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse. Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like. The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation. Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first. What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland. Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved. They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data. The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment." The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible. This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis. The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world. Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.

Today I'm publishing a new essay, Policy on the AI Exponential. AI is progressing extremely fast—much faster than the policy process was built to handle. The essay lays out where I think the technology is now, and the action needed to close the gap: darioamodei.com/post/policy-…

01:23 MSD - 26.04.1986 Вічная Пам'ять

どんな #ポケモン会えるかな ？ #ポケモン30周年 #PR @poke_times

ویدیوی دریافتی: '#لندن، لحظه عملیات پایین آوردن پرچم جمهوری اسلامی و برافراشتن #پرچم شیر و خورشید #ایران در بالکن سفارت #Iran، شنبه ۲۰ دی' 🇮🇷

Warum sie bei Gaza schreien und beim Iran schweigen

Budapest Memorandum 1994 Ukraine gives up its nuclear weapons for US Security Guarantees. Foreshadowing.

This is Zelenskyy's "if necessary for years, if necessary alone" moment. A chapter in history that will be remembered both for the shame of Washington's betrayal, and for the dignity, bravery, defiance and resolve of the Ukrainian people in the face of it all.

I also like how Zelensky warning Europe about potential war with Russia gets twisted into him calling for WW3, but Putin openly trashing the West, making nuclear threats & calling Ukraine a fake country is just the misunderstood security concerns of a peace loving man who was "provoked" by the West.

Anlässlich des Tags der Deutschen Einheit wünsche ich all unseren deutschen Freundinnen und Freunden, dass sie ihre nationale Einheit bewahren und Europa sowie die Welt weiterhin im Sinne unserer gemeinsamen Werte Freiheit, Leben und Demokratie vereinen. Die Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands vor 34 Jahren war ein wahrhaft inspirierendes Ereignis in der europäischen Geschichte. Sie hat gezeigt, dass das Streben der Menschen nach Freiheit und Einheit stärker ist als Beton und Totalitarismus. Auch heute noch inspiriert sie uns in unserem Kampf für Freiheit, Unabhängigkeit und ein stärkeres, wohlhabenderes Europa. Wir sind Deutschland dankbar für seine herausragende Führungsrolle bei der Unterstützung der Ukraine. Die deutsche Hilfe hat bereits Tausenden von Ukrainerinnen und Ukrainern das Leben gerettet. Diese Unterstützung trägt auch dazu bei, Europa sicherer zu machen und den Frieden langfristig für alle Europäerinnen und Europäer zu sichern. Wir alle wünschen uns, dass es in Europa nie wieder geteilte Nationen oder Mauern gibt, die Menschen und Familien auseinanderreißen. Gemeinsam werden wir sicherstellen, dass Europa geeint und inspiriert bleibt.

01:23 MSD - 26.04.1986 Вічная Пам'ять

On Christmas Eve, 1988, a group of German criminals took hostages at an L.A. office party. The making of story behind DIE HARD is bigger than the Nakatomi… 1/43

Being a long time #formula1-TV subscriber, today was the first time I set up multiple devices to not only follow the main race stream, but pilot views of my two favorite drivers... I've been missing out... #MiamiGP #mercedesf1

01:23 MSD - 26.04.1986 Вічная Пам'ять

Is anyone else having problems setting their @SharePoint HomeSite? No matter what I do (in GUI or PowerShell) - the HomeSite doesn't change. Get-SPOHomesite confirms that the setting is correct, but still the wrong site is loaded consistently...

Biggest flex when people come to visit me? Having this in the guest bathroom. #Winrar

How to spend the holidays? Watching #JackRyanSeason3 E-P-I-C