Distilled Personalities
tw_killian · x · 2026-07-14
This repost jokes that many people in San Francisco seem to form their personalities through a "distillation attack," distilled not from a frontier personality, but from a distillation of a distillation.
The author adds a sharp follow-up: this mimics what happens to a model trained on synthetic data for four consecutive generations, implying that such endless copying only degrades "taste" further.
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