Reddit thread: AI is eating itself as ChatGPT-polished posts feed the next training run
norsvast · reddit · 2026-09-11
A Reddit post argues that the synthetic-data feedback loop isn't a future concern — it's happening now. Nearly everything online gets run through ChatGPT first: people paste drafts, hit 'polish,' and publish text stamped with the model's fingerprints (same passive tone, fake-balanced sentences, overused words). Web scrapers then scoop it up for the next model update. The author's takeaway: humans are now just middlemen, feeding AI-edited writing from Reddit and Medium straight back into the training loop.
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