AI-Generated Data Pollution: Why Models Speak in Weird Jargon
paulnovosad · x · 2026-08-06
The author observes an interesting phenomenon: AI writing frequently features baffling jargon like "footgun". They speculate that such weird words are unlikely to be common in the original human training data, suggesting that models are being trained on AI-generated data, which creates accidental focal points on strange vocabulary.
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