Google: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bug

Generative AI preempts what comes next, so in the absence of information, it will make up completely believable-sounding things.

There's a swirl of optimism around how these models will save us from a suite of boring busywork: writing formal emails, internal memos, technical documentation, marketing copy, product announcement, advertisements, cover letters, and even negotiating with medical 

insurance companies.But we'll also need to reckon with the trade-offs of making

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While LLMs continue to devour web-scraped data, they’ll increasingly consume their own digital progeny as AI-generated content continues to flood the internet. This recursive loop, experimentally confirmed, erodes the true data landscape. Rare events vanish first. Models churn out likely sequences from the original pool while injecting their own un... See more