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AI was found to have the first digital disease — "model autophagy disorder"

https://www.sciencealert.com/cannibal-ais-could-risk-digital-mad-cow-disease-without-fresh-data

Scientists from Rice University have discovered the first digital disease in AI, called "Model Autophagy Disorder" (MAD). This condition occurs when AI models are trained on data created by other AI models, instead of fresh real data. Over time, this leads to degradation of the quality and diversity of the generated results, the AI results begin to resemble each other and gradually lose quality.

The images demonstrating the effects of such training show how the image quality deteriorates after several training cycles, turning into unrecognizable and distorted versions of the original data.

The researchers demonstrated that without regular updating with real data, the AI results begin to become more distorted and monotonous, which can eventually lead to a serious decrease in the quality of the images or texts created.