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Christoph Schwaiger

Researchers have discovered AI’s worst enemy — its own data

AI robot running on a treadmill.

AI chatbots can collapse to the point that they start replying to your questions with gibberish if they’re mainly trained on learning material created by AI, a group of researchers has found.

Ilia Shumailov, a research scientist at Google DeepMind, and his colleagues wanted to find an answer to the question: "What would happen to ChatGPT if the majority of the text it trained on was created by AI?"

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