@ApostateEnglishman @theeclecticdyslexic @thomasfuchs 'there's no equivalent of an evolutionary "pruning" process to weed out falsehood or mediocrity, the way natural selection does with maladaptive genes'
What the hell do you think the people training these models do with them when they aren't up to scratch? They prune the shit out of the results that aren't up to scratch. And yet model collapse has still been shown to be inevitable, as has the generation of false but plausible looking output!