AI models feeding on AI data will lead to 'model collapse', researchers say (web.archive.org)

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Using model-generated content in training causes irreversible defects, a team of researchers says. "The tails of the original content distribution disappears," writes co-author Ross Anderson from the University of Cambridge in a blog post. "Within a few generations, text becomes garbage, as Gaussian distributions converge and may even become delta functions."

Here's is the study: http://web.archive.org/web/20230614184632/https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17493

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

But then you're training on more and more outdated data

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Both in terms of factual information, news, etc, and just in terms of language change. An LLM needs to be able to keep up with slang and other new words, both for understanding prompts and for producing passable results.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Afaik, there are already solution to that.

You first train the data on the outdated but correct data, to establish the correct "thought" patterns.

And then you can train the ai on the fresh but flawed data, without tripping about the mistakes.

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