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“Model collapse” threatens to kill progress on generative AIs (bigthink.com)
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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I like to think of it like a Mad Cow or Kuru, you can't eat your own species's brains or you could get a super lethal, contagious prion disease.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    Prion diseases aren’t contagious.

    Edit: for the uninformed people that downvoted - clearly spelled out here https://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/neurologic-disorders/prion-diseases/overview-of-prion-diseases

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You can acquire it through direct contact, i.e. consuming prion-disease-contaminated meat. What would you call it?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Contagious means you can get it from direct or indirect contact with another person or organism that is infected. Not from eating them.

    That is not possible with prion disease.

    Ingesting a Petri dish full of flu virus doesn’t make the Petri dish ‘contagious’.

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