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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 108 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

How many of these books will just be totally garbage nonsense just so they could fulfill a prearranged quota.

Now the LLM are filled with a good amount of nonsense.

[-] poplargrove@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

That would be terrible because they are both some of the best academic publishers in the humanities.

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 58 points 1 day ago

Just use the llm to make the books that the llm then uses, what could go wrong?

[-] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 day ago

Someone's probably already coined the term, but I'm going to call it LLM inbreeding.

[-] anzo@programming.dev 2 points 20 hours ago

In computer science, garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) is the concept that flawed, biased or poor quality ("garbage") information or input produces a result or output of similar ("garbage") quality. The adage points to the need to improve data quality in, for example, programming.

There was some research article applying this 70s computer science concept to LLMs. It was published in Nature and hit major news outlets. Basically they further trained GPT on its output for a couple generations, until the model degraded terribly. Sounded obvious to me, but seeing it happen on the www is painful nonetheless...

[-] Naz@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago

I suggested this term in academic circles, as a joke.

I also suggested hallucinations ~3-6 years ago only to find out it was ALSO suggested in the 1970s.

Inbreeding, lol

[-] Benn@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

It's quite similar to another situation known as data incest

[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Soylent AI? Auto-infocannibalism

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

It can only go right because corporations must be punished for trying to replace people with machines.

this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2024
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