It's terrible! Also lucky? This is a recent study by Rice University and Stanford University, using AI-generated content to train artificial intelligence, only 5 cycles after starting to rip off, synthetic images began to go wrong; The more cycles, the bigger the problem and eventually "mad cow disease" may occur!
Are you relieved? If AI can evolve on its own, humans may be replaced in the near future.
But this study shows that without fresh data generated by humans, artificial intelligence will likely gradually be autophagy, "terminally ill" and unrecognizable, which scientists call model autophagy disorder (MAD) - just "crazy"! It's like a close human being married and unable to produce healthy offspring.
This means that artificial intelligence is actually tied to humans, and without humans, they will soon collapse, which seems to give us a new turn in our fate. If your fate is inextricably linked to another person, and he dies, you must also die, believing that you will not have any reason to kill him, but to protect his life at every turn.
So is AI the same for us? This is called pinching, we humans finally grasp the sore spot of artificial intelligence, no longer have to be afraid of them?
But you may be rejoicing too soon! Because it is more likely to appear in a more complex situation, human data, artificial intelligence data are feeding large models at the same time, let artificial intelligence grow, what kind of situation will occur?
Google's Bard, Anthropic's Claude, and OpenAI are probably scraping each other's generated data to feed their models. And the content generated by humans using artificial intelligence is also entering the dataset.
We can guess a terrible end ending: humans locked up in content farms by increasingly powerful artificial intelligence, dedicated to producing data, feeding their growth, and doing whatever they want in this world.
Just like we now put pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks and fish in fenced fish ponds, densely packed together without quality of life, killed for life, and replenished us with protein and energy.
The nutrition that artificial intelligence needs is content, and we happen to be the only creatures that can produce this kind of thing, so our fate is now sealed?
If strong artificial intelligence with autonomous consciousness emerges, they can evolve autonomously, and we are likely to be like ants, insignificant from now on, and from time to time we will be sprayed with pesticides, without even needing any reason.
If artificial intelligence still needs our content to be fed, we may be reduced to the same fate as chickens, ducks, fish, cows, sheep and pigs, huddled in narrow iron railings that cannot be turned around, producing content day after day - wonderful love is gone, sex has become the preserve of a few - they are called races, and their fate may not be much better!
What we impose, we will eventually impose.
Well, this may just be cranky, and hopefully just cranky.
Thesis: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.01850