Using model-generated content in training causes irreversible defects, a team of researchers says. “The tails of the original content distribution disappears,” writes co-author Ross Anderson from the University of Cambridge in a blog post. “Within a few generations, text becomes garbage, as Gaussian distributions converge and may even become delta functions.”
This reminds me of a saying from my programming classes: Garbage in, garbage out.
Refers to how inputting bad data WILL make the program produce even more bad data
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This reminds me of a saying from my programming classes: Garbage in, garbage out. Refers to how inputting bad data WILL make the program produce even more bad data