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Boniface Billy retweeted
The richest man on Earth dismantled the organization that feeds the poorest children on earth. The definition of evil is being a trillionaire in a world where millions of children are starving.
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Boniface Billy retweeted
This manhole in Haifa is older than the state of Israel 😆
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Boniface Billy retweeted
Yup
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Boniface Billy retweeted
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.
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Boniface Billy retweeted
“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to enquire. We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.” ― J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Boniface Billy retweeted
SPOTTED in Times Square this morning: A brutal depiction of Elon Musk and Grok’s child p*rn problems ahead of the SpaceX IPO tomorrow. WOW
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Boniface Billy retweeted
BREAKING: We're suing DHS for unconstitutionally wiping out decades of environmental law to blast border barriers and roads through Big Bend National Park—one of the most remote, wild, and least-crossed stretches of the entire southern border.
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Boniface Billy retweeted
Tune in this Sunday at 10pm on @BBCTwo and @BBCiPlayer for an unforgettable evening with this incredible musical mix! 🎶 ⭐ @lolayounggg@babyrosemusic@signifyingwolf@wasia_project ⭐ Beverly Glenn-Copeland and Elizabeth Copeland ⭐ Mike D
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Boniface Billy retweeted
Good morning ☕️🎶🎸✊🏻 Fuck the Fascists & Racists The Specials A message to you rudy
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Boniface Billy retweeted
Kentucky leadership push for over 30 data centers to be built in Kentucky. Each will consume unbelievable quantities of water. At the same time the Green River Ferry is unable to serve the local community because of drought conditions in Kentucky.
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Boniface Billy retweeted
Barbara, June 9, 1930 – November 24, 1997. La dame brune 1969 duo avec Georges Moustaki
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BREAKING: DHS just waived all environmental laws to blast border barriers and roads through Big Bend National Park. This marks the first time in American history the feds have gutted dozens of laws to push industrial-level construction through a national park.
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Boniface Billy retweeted
Replying to @hasanthehun
I also highly recommend this graphic novel by Joe Sacco to understand the day to day of life in occupied Palestine:
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country singer brad paisley has joined the data center resistance
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In UK they are muscling in on the NHS data base. The reason - the UK has the most continuous of health information of every citizen in the Country since 1948. It’s a research goldmine for pharma companies so worth a fortune if exploited.
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Boniface Billy retweeted
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