Is AI destroying the internet with AI-generated content? No, AI is not destroying the internet. But: Model collapse threatens future AI development as training on synthetic data degrades performance. Reads: If a new model is trained on weak data, the new model is weak from the beginning. The next model is trained on the last weak model again.
This is reducing the general evidence of information. Content becomes suspicious but seems to be plausible.
Research from Oxford (2024) demonstrates:
- Models trained on AI-generated text lose 30% accuracy within 5 generations
- Creative writing becomes homogenized
- Rare information disappears from outputs
Current internet pollution:
- 50%+ of some article sites are AI-generated (NewsGuard estimate)
- Amazon is flooded with AI-written books
- Social media bot content is exceeding human posts
- Academic papers containing AI text rising 15% yearly
Long-term risk: Future models trained on corrupted internet data will be fundamentally broken.
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