Refers to the internet saturated in misinformation and AI “garbage.” According to MIT Technology Review, large language models are trained on data sets built by scraping the internet for text. This text includes silly, false, and malicious things humans have written online. The finished AI models regurgitate this content as fact, and their output is spread everywhere online. Tech companies scrape the internet again, scooping up AI-written text used to train bigger, more convincing models, which humans can use to generate even more nonsense before it is scraped again and again—continuing the cycle of "internet poisoning." AI feeding on itself and producing increasingly polluted output also extends to images, resulting in the internet forever contaminated with images made by AI.
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