AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data (www.nature.com)
from floofloof@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 2024 19:30
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BombOmOm@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 2024 19:40 next collapse

Yep. It leads to a positive feedback loop. They just continue to self-reinforce whatever came out before.

And with increasing amounts of the internet being polluted with AI text output…

Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 2024 19:43 next collapse

… AI inbreeding.

Boozilla@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 2024 19:49 next collapse

We call it the GRRM model.

Sibbo@sopuli.xyz on 24 Jul 2024 20:00 next collapse

In the USA, they call it the AlaLlama model.

bionicjoey@lemmy.ca on 25 Jul 2024 00:31 next collapse

GPTargaryen

sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip on 25 Jul 2024 07:44 collapse

What about the Grrr! model after that astoundingly XD So Random! thing from Invader Zim?

He’s an android or robot, right?

skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de on 24 Jul 2024 20:00 next collapse

hapsburgGPT

LilaOrchidee@feddit.org on 24 Jul 2024 20:59 collapse

AInbreeding

MagicShel@programming.dev on 24 Jul 2024 20:03 next collapse

That seems so obviously predictable.

Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 24 Jul 2024 20:40 next collapse

You have to pretty much intentionally give it enough synthetic data to wreck it. OpenAI and Anthropic train their models on generated data to improve them. As long as there’s supervision during training, which there always will be, this isn’t really a problem.

openai.com/…/prover-verifier-games-improve-legibi…

www.anthropic.com/research/claude-character

kevincox@lemmy.ml on 24 Jul 2024 21:22 next collapse

To be fair this doesn’t sound much different than your average human using the internet.

sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip on 25 Jul 2024 07:46 collapse

2024, Reverse Turing Test Challenge:

Can an LLM AI differentiate between human input and LLM AI input?

Tobberone@lemm.ee on 24 Jul 2024 21:24 collapse

Well… Its built on statistics and statistical inference will return to the mean eventually. If all it ever gets to train on is closer and closer to the mean, there will be nothing left to work with. It will all be the average…

SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 2024 20:45 next collapse

Eventually an AI will be developed that can learn with much less data. In the end we don’t need to read the entire internet to get through our education. But, that’s not going to be LLM. No matter how much you tweak LLM models, it won’t get there. It’s like trying to tune a coal fired steam powered car until you can compete in a formula 1 race.

conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works on 24 Jul 2024 20:58 next collapse

Yeah, it’s entirely plausible that LLMs are a small part of the answer as basically the language center of the brain, but the brain is a hell of a lot more complex than that. The language center isn’t your whole brain, and is only loosely connected to actual decision making. It confabulates a lot.

SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 2024 21:24 collapse

OpenAI stumbled on something that worked and ran with it, and people started proclaiming it to be the answer to everything. The same happened with Deep Learning and every AI invention so far. It’s all just another stepping stone on the way.

Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 24 Jul 2024 22:01 collapse

It’s already happening. A quote from Andrej Karpathy :

Turns out that LLMs learn a lot better and faster from educational content as well. This is partly because the average Common Crawl article (internet pages) is not of very high value and distracts the training, packing in too much irrelevant information. The average webpage on the internet is so random and terrible it’s not even clear how prior LLMs learn anything at all.

YeetPics@mander.xyz on 24 Jul 2024 21:01 next collapse

So do humans if I’m being honest, look at the RNC.

FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io on 24 Jul 2024 21:23 next collapse

No shit.

TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org on 24 Jul 2024 21:36 next collapse

This has been obvious for a while to those of us using GitHub Copilot for programming. Start a function, and then just keep hitting tab to let it autotype based on what it already wrote. It quickly devolves into strange and random bullshit. You gotta babysit it.

0laura@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 00:15 next collapse

very unlikely to stem from model collapse. why would they use a worse model? it’s probably because they neutered it or gave it less resources.

TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org on 25 Jul 2024 01:00 collapse

It learns from your own code as you type so it can offer more relevant suggestions unlike the web-based LLMs. So you can make it feed back on itself.

booly@sh.itjust.works on 25 Jul 2024 02:55 collapse

Where did you learn to write such shitty code?

I learned it from watching you!

nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de on 25 Jul 2024 06:34 collapse

Same thing with Stable Diffusion if you’ve ever used a generated image as an input and repeated the same prompt. You basically get a deep-fried copy.

FaceDeer@fedia.io on 26 Jul 2024 00:23 collapse

img2img is not "training" the model. Completely different process.

nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de on 26 Jul 2024 06:55 collapse

Oh yeah, you’re right. It’s both degradation in some way, but through entirely different causes.

ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 00:40 next collapse

You don’t say, Sherlock

jet@hackertalks.com on 25 Jul 2024 02:00 next collapse

Garbage in garbage out

It’s an old expression, but it still checks out

fubarx@lemmy.ml on 25 Jul 2024 06:54 next collapse

No shit. People have known about the perils of feeding simulator output back in as input for eons. The variance drops off so you end up with zero new insights and a gradual worsening due to entropy.

sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip on 25 Jul 2024 07:42 next collapse

Holy shit are you telling me…

Garbage In…

= Garbage Out?

No, that can’t be it, throw billions and billions of dollars at this instead of, I don’t know, housing the homeless.

FaceDeer@fedia.io on 26 Jul 2024 00:22 collapse

You realize that those "billions of dollars" have actually resulted in a solution to this? "Model collapse" has been known about for a long time and further research figured out how to avoid it. Modern LLMs actually turn out better when they're trained on well-crafted and well-curated synthetic data.

Honestly, everyone seems to assume that machine learning researchers are simpletons who've never used a photocopier before.

Zip2@feddit.uk on 25 Jul 2024 08:25 next collapse

So it’s basically an AI prion disease?

Llewellyn@lemm.ee on 25 Jul 2024 17:42 collapse

No.

lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world on 26 Jul 2024 10:06 next collapse

Can’t wait

Paragone@lemmy.world on 30 Jul 2024 09:02 collapse

( Horseshack voice: )

Oh! Oh! Oh! Mr Kotter!

YOU MEAN FILTER-BUBBLES DO THE SAME THING TO BOTH HUMANS AND AIs??


How Very Incredibly Surprising™, Oh, My!

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