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Model collapse (n.) is the decline of AI models trained on AI-generated data, as errors compound and rare details vanish over generations.
Model collapse (n.) is the Habsburg jaw, but for chatbots.
Model collapse (n.) is a photocopy of a photocopy that still insists it's the original.
Academic Jathan Sadowski nicknamed the problem "Habsburg AI," after the royal dynasty undone by inbreeding; Rice and Stanford researchers called it "Model Autophagy Disorder."
Model collapse (n.) is drinking from a well you've been spitting into.
Model collapse (n.) is a machine forgetting the rare and the strange first, then everything else.
Model collapse (n.) is why old, boring, human-written text is now the most valuable thing online.
The Nature paper on model collapse found that text about medieval architecture, retrained over nine generations, degenerated into a list of jackrabbits.