Study Shows Recursive AI-Generated Training Data Causes Irreversible Model Collapse
An Oxford-Cambridge experiment showed a language model trained recursively for nine generations on its own outputs collapsed irreversibly, echoing the 2024 Nature paper by Shumailov et al.; keeping 10% real data can mitigate the damage.
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