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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop (www.404media.co)

submitted 3 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] uairhahs@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

It's kind of sort of already happening. Emdashes are fragments of it, a token saving strategy introduced by already trained on old books in their data sources. Model collapse is inevitable.

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[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Idk. Prose books generally have tons of em dashes.

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[–] uairhahs@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Yes exactly the point being made in the link. AI picks up unintended behaviours already, it's not too hard to imagine that the general direction is towards model collapse.

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