they eat their own excrement.
then you eat it when you're using "A.i."
Greg Pak
this is fascinating, and a great explainer of how AI works, and how today AI has begun cannibalizing its own data because so many sites are protecting themselves with those "verify you are human" things to deter scraping.
the biggest LLMs all use the same dataset, and train on their own issue
This is wild: essentially every LLM—ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini—keeps using the same character when asked to make up a story, a guy called 'Elias Thorne'. He appears so much it's impacting Google Trends data and the self-published book market. Now we might know why www.404media.co/elias-thorne...
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LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon bo...
