I see it as further evidence that the term Artificial Intelligence as currently applied to most things is a great marketing term, but just that – marketing and hype. If these models were truly ‘intelligent’ then model collapse wouldn’t be a problem. At best they pseudo-think. Don’t get me wrong, I use them all the time to improve my writing. But I don’t really consider them intelligent, as they lack judgment and creativity. As Noam Chomsky put it, more like digital plagiarism.

I also liked how they explained why it goes so wrong when AI trains AI - it’s like a digital version of the problem of inbreeding.

If only we could get the world as hyped up on the things we are good at. Like showing causality!