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AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all (www.technologyreview.com)
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[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The fingerprinting they're doing now is meant to help with this. If they see a fingerprint, it was probably not human generated so don't ingest it.

[–] Womble@piefed.world 5 points 1 day ago

They are not only using human written data any more. Reinforcement learning through human feedback (RLHF) is a big part of it now, that's the AI running through a problem multiple times with a human picking the best attempt and then using that best attempt as training data going forwards. The model collapse stuff from a few years ago was from an AI repeatedly ingesting its own input with no guidance over many training iterations.