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AI Is Creating “Doom Loops” All Over the Economy: The AI industry is destroying its own incentive structure.
futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-is-creating-doom-loops-all-over-the-economyReplying to @eicker@lemmy.world
AI’s business model is starting to look like a snake eating its own tail: scrape human work, replace the humans who make it, flood the web with synthetic sludge, then wonder why there’s less quality data to train on. Silicon Valley calls it disruption. Everyone else might call it burning the furniture to heat the house.
Replying to @eicker@lemmy.world
Best thing you could probably do at this point is make slop and pass it off as real work.
Replying to @eicker@lemmy.world
Burning the furniture to heat the house is such a good analogy, wow.
Replying to @victorz@lemmy.world
Shitting the nest is a more abrasive analogy for when you really mean it.
Replying to @prex@aussie.zone
I’ve heard shitting on your own doorstep. Doesn’t fit as nicely as the furniture analogy though IMO 😆
Replying to @prex@aussie.zone
I think “Shitting where you eat” works a little better, given they’re shitting all over the internet, which is where their training data comes from
Edit: Spelling
Replying to @victorz@lemmy.world
Pretty sure some of that furniture was structural
Load-bearing, some might say
Replying to @inari@piefed.zip
Hey, at least it’ll be warm for a hot minute!
Replying to @ICastFist@programming.dev
Sure we destroyed the planet, but for a while there we provided great shareholder value.
Replying to @victorz@lemmy.world
I’ve heard it as sell the car to buy gasoline
Replying to @Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Also very accurate 😄
Replying to @victorz@lemmy.world
An old one is “eating your seed corn”. In other words eating the seeds you need to plant the next crop to survive now guaranteeing you will starve next season.
Replying to @SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
Wow, also really good 😅
Replying to @eicker@lemmy.world
I cant recall the source (I think it was a Telegraph article) but it only took current AIs 7 “rounds” to confuse its data amongst each other and it was 11 or 12 before it becomes completely corrupted. The testers basically used ChatGPT, Grok etc etc to search each other and they just had massive brain farts at the 7th round of questioning.