Training AI on All Internet Text is Like Raising a Teenager
fkasummer · x · 2026-07-16
The author remarks that modern AI training—essentially having the model mimic every author on the internet—is a brute-force yet effective approach that feels exactly like raising a rebellious teenager. In a follow-up comment, they add that entrusting any real responsibility to a system trained on "mimicking the entire internet" is practically a "suicide mission" when you think about it.
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