Opus 5 Degradation Highlights Risks of Training on Synthetic Data
max_paperclips · x · 2026-07-29
A user points out that the recent degradation in Opus 5 breaks the illusion that current models are the worst they'll ever be. As AI-generated text makes up an increasing fraction of training corpora, it will require significantly more effort to steer models away from "LLM babble" and distribution collapse.
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