Generative Spongiform Encephalopathy (GSE): The AI Ouroboros

There’s a coming AI reckoning when all AI models will develop Digital Scrapie, Computer Kuru, 90.001.0.01.666. Generative Spongiform Encephalopathy.

AI models train on data scraped from the internet to build predictive models of what word will follow what phrase or to generate weights for labels applied to images to iteratively refine noise until the desired label applies to the outcome.

This is all fine when you assume the majority of labeling and language is largely representative of human speech, but as people turn more and more to AI to generate all the text they emit, whether chat or email or (soon) even speech.

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As computer generated text and images dominate the internet, the connection to human thought will break down and a cycle of ever more misfolded references will dominate the training data, corrupting the model, or at least rendering it irrelevant to humans.

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The problem could be mitigated if it is practical to detect algorithmically generated media, but if it is good enough to fool people, it will likely fool machines as well. Digital scrapie from cannibalistic scraping of AI media. Computational Kuru afflicting the LLM Fore. What will malformed lexical prions look like?