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AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data (www.nature.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Holy shit are you telling me...

Garbage In...

= Garbage Out?

No, that can't be it, throw billions and billions of dollars at this instead of, I don't know, housing the homeless.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

You realize that those "billions of dollars" have actually resulted in a solution to this? "Model collapse" has been known about for a long time and further research figured out how to avoid it. Modern LLMs actually turn out better when they're trained on well-crafted and well-curated synthetic data.

Honestly, everyone seems to assume that machine learning researchers are simpletons who've never used a photocopier before.