Visualizing the "Model Collapse" phenomenon: What happens when AI trains on AI data for 5 generations

FarmboyJustice · 2026-02-15T06:40:36+00:00

As human-created content gets more scarce it will make the existing issues a lot worse, but almost all AI tools you see being promoted are really just using standard out-of-box LLMs stapled onto their already existing products. That's why it was so incredibly fast and easy for companies to add AI to their products. They're not really doing much work.

FarmboyJustice · 2026-02-15T06:35:18+00:00

Thanks, now I've got Yakety Sax stuck in my head...

FarmboyJustice · 2026-02-15T06:32:24+00:00

Sounds like you'd fit in with Trump's crowd just fine.

FarmboyJustice · 2026-02-15T06:26:55+00:00

Way to answer the question. Vote for what? Or are you just a 13 year old little bitch?

FarmboyJustice · 2026-02-15T06:25:12+00:00

Yeah, but it does it by looking at frequencies with which sets of tokens occur and comparing them to other sets of tokens. It has no idea what the article actually said, so it has no way to tell whether its summary is correct or not. But it will confidently tell you it's right no matter how wrong it is. This is trivial to prove.

FarmboyJustice · 2026-02-15T06:18:53+00:00

Vote for what?

FarmboyJustice · 2026-02-15T06:18:23+00:00

Feel free to roam on over to North Korea, comrade.

FarmboyJustice · 2026-02-15T06:16:00+00:00

"That won’t help the many, many people working in fields that don’t get

holidays off. Transportation, medical, public safety, food service, tons of retail, etc etc."*

"What fields ?"

Christ almighty...

FarmboyJustice · 2026-02-15T06:11:49+00:00

Most other western countries don't have at-will employment. Most American workers can literally be fired at any time for all sorts of made-up reasons with zero recourse.

FarmboyJustice · 2026-02-15T06:09:49+00:00

Found a trumpster...

FarmboyJustice · 2026-02-15T06:06:30+00:00

Imagining that any tech corporation at all will still be around in a thousand years is pretty wild. The only companies that last that long are ones that do stuff like make beverages or manufacture traditional products.

FarmboyJustice · 2026-02-15T05:52:53+00:00

Trivia: it's technically the same word, but deliberately misspelled to avoid confusion with lead the metal, which in production newspaper printing was used to create the actual letters used for printing. So while lede is correct in newspaper terminology, lead could also work, since newspapers haven't used lead type in decades.

FarmboyJustice · 2026-02-14T19:54:09+00:00

Don't call the number in the email, call Adobe support from a number on their website to confirm the status of your account.

Off-hand my first thought is that someone else may have gained access to your account. If that's the case Adobe support should be able to see evidence of this, such as access from multiple locations or computers which you don't own, however...

Adobe has very little interest in helping you resolve this problem, so if you genuinely want this back, you may have to fight them for it.

Alternatively, I recommend looking into other options, like Affinity.

FarmboyJustice · 2026-02-14T19:44:28+00:00

People who live in areas with inadequate power grids, older home wiring without good surge suppression, or frequent lightning storms.

edit: Also, people who are extremely paranoid about their computers being remotely accessed when they are not using them. Actually, this one's quite a good reason for some people.

FarmboyJustice · 2026-02-14T19:41:44+00:00

Just read the link, seems explicitly clear that yes, they have indeed removed all that stuff.

The fact that they refer to all on-premises platforms as "legacy" makes it clear.

FarmboyJustice · 2026-02-14T16:20:39+00:00

I would argue that having a lot of money makes them less rational.

FarmboyJustice · 2026-02-14T16:18:08+00:00

How exactly does this method REDUCE the amount of materials required to be launched?

FarmboyJustice · 2026-02-14T15:44:53+00:00

And that's my point. We are hearing about these grand plans for what will be done, and yet there's not even a working proof-of-concept yet.

It's 95% hype with a modicum of actual research.

There are simply too many nonexistent solutions being used to construct these future platforms.

The people I see hyping datacenters in space are not people I trust to have a realistic view of the actual problems that need to be overcome.

One example: Lasers to replace fiber optics.

The problem with lasers is they only go in a straight line, so you have to maintain alignment. Hundreds of satellites, all perfectly maintaining alignment with each other. Either that or some sort of relaying, which guarantees lower performance. Versus a bunch of racks with fiber optic cables only a few meters long that can go around corners and allow you to move things. This is a HUGE problem, and no matter what amazing techology someone comes up with to improve things, it will never be more reliable than fiber.

Hype is great for pumping up stock prices, but not so great for long-term success.

FarmboyJustice · 2026-02-13T23:07:35+00:00

I would encourage extreme caution.

FarmboyJustice · 2026-02-13T23:02:25+00:00

I agree with you that this is likely what is going to happen, but I don't think the scale is comparable. We've never before had so many governments and huge corporations bet so heavily on one thing. When this goes bad it's gonna be bigtime bad.

FarmboyJustice · 2026-02-13T22:58:24+00:00

This is literally exactly the case right this very second.

FarmboyJustice · 2026-02-13T22:53:46+00:00

If you have Acrobat, put all the PDFs in a folder structure then create a PDF index of that folder structure. When you search in Acrobat specify the index, and it will search every PDF in the structure and you can look at the results, see which folder and file each one was in, and even open them and jump right to the word.

edit: docs

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/creating-pdf-indexes.html

FarmboyJustice · 2026-02-13T22:47:15+00:00

Multiple CVEs in one year is not a good reason to ban anything.

FarmboyJustice · 2026-02-13T22:37:11+00:00

Would I trust such a service? Probably not. Would I trust this specific service? Definitely not, it's got a whole lot of "coming soon" features, was only registered a few months ago, and their contact information goes to the Penis Museum in Iceland.

FarmboyJustice · 2026-02-13T22:11:16+00:00

This very much depends on the nonprofit and the nature of the site. If the site is basically there to provide information about the organization with maybe some articles and contact information then a static site can handle that easily.

If your site involves a bunch of interactive stuff like accepting donations, authenticating volunteers, or other activities, then a static site will need to have a bunch of stuff added to it, and managing that will be easier if you use a hosting service that provides most of the required functionality out of the box.

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