AI is eating itself alive, like a snake eating its tail. Whether it’s a blog post, a restaurant review, or a social media personality, absolutely everything online has been infiltrated by artificial intelligence. For AI to keep evolving, it has to keep eating content. And now all that content is AI. The lies it spews are finally having some consequences, as the models become exponentially more idiotic the more it eats itself. As the New York Times states, “Just as a copy of a copy can drift away from the original, when generative A.I. is trained on its own content, its output can also drift away from reality, growing further apart from the original data that it was intended to imitate.”
AI, which has been lambasted in the past for some wildly inaccurate claims, is more likely than ever to recommend you use super glue to stick the cheese to your pizza. The Google AI at the top of your search feature may be as likely to spit out propaganda it made up about historical events, as it is to give you unbiased facts. To call what is essentially machine learning “intelligence” is a farce meant to trick the public into trusting soulless computers.
As AI continues cannibalize itself, drifting further from human reality, we must be ever attentive to how it is warping the world around us. It becomes ever more important to remain connected to ourselves, each other, and the Lord.
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