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Re:Self-Consuming Generative Models Go MAD by Almondsetat on Thursday January 18, 2024 @02:51AM (#39039137)
The example with the pig is because they are famous for eating basically anything without a hitch.

If AI generated stuff is so bad you cannot train AI with it why would humans use it to train themselves (aka learn stuff)?

Re:Self-Consuming Generative Models Go MAD by gryn on Thursday January 18, 2024 @04:09AM (#39039629)
well it not really a good analogy because pigs are very robust and have existed a long time and 'AI'(LLMs) are very brittle fragile embryos that can die from a sneeze.

a more relevant analogy for llms is a bullshiter that don't know shit about anything but like talk about everything and they're good at that (talking like they know), I'm sure we all at least know or knew in the past someone like that.

at a low enough percentage these bullshiters can thrive and get praise from other people but when there a lot of them and not enough of the real deal, well everyone is in trouble including the bullshiters since they no longer have who to mimic.

Re:Self-Consuming Generative Models Go MAD by lynx23 on Thursday January 18, 2024 @06:05AM (#39040381)
The actual question seems to be if humans are more resilient to errors in their training data. I would assume so.
Re:Self-Consuming Generative Models Go MAD by ben_w on Thursday January 18, 2024 @07:22AM (#39040847)
As a relative statement, I'm not sure if AI or humans are better or worse (or even "it depends on what you're measuring"), but in an absolute sense humans are also pretty suggestible and easy to influence, and it's only countervailing influences pushing in other directions that turn it into noise.

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