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the roamer
@the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

"The internet, as the primary source of knowledge for AI models, becomes recursively influenced by the very outputs those models generate. With each training cycle, new models increasingly rely on AI-generated content. This risks creating a feedback loop where dominant ideas are continuously amplified while long-tail or niche knowledge fades from view."

A thoughtful piece of genAI criticism by Deepak Varuvel Dennison, focusing on the loss of indigineous or otherwise diverse or non-standard knowledge. A Long Read in today's Guardian, originally published in Aeon.

https://aeon.co/essays/generative-ai-has-access-to-a-small-slice-of-human-knowledge

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/nov/18/what-ai-doesnt-know-global-knowledge-collapse

#noAI #StopTheAICorruption #IndiginousKnowledge #DeepakVaruvelDennison #KnowledgeCollapse #AndrewPeterson

the Guardian

What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison

The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing
Aeon

Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays

Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too
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