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Will AI trained on AI-generated content degrade over time?

Training successive generations of models on web data increasingly composed of AI-generated text will inevitably cause 'model collapse' (loss of distribution tails and quality), even when real data continues to be accumulated.

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Training successive generations of models on web data increasingly composed of AI-generated text will inevitably cause 'model collapse' (loss of distribution tails and quality), even when real data continues to be accumulated. Clean adversarial pair: Shumailov (replace data → collapse) vs Gerstgrasser (accumulate data → no collapse).

  1. AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data (Nature, 2024) (opens in a new tab)DOI
  2. Is Model Collapse Inevitable? Breaking the Curse of Recursion by Accumulating Real and Synthetic Data (Gerstgrasser et al., 2024) (opens in a new tab)Unverified

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