{"id":340933,"date":"2024-08-28T15:20:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T13:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=340933"},"modified":"2024-08-28T15:20:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T13:20:35","slug":"ai-model-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=340933","title":{"rendered":"AI-Model Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"482\" data-attachment-id=\"340940\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=340940\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0real-ai.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1365\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;PhonlamaiPhoto&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;3d rendering humanoid robot with ai text in ciucuit pattern&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;3d rendering humanoid robot with ai text in ciucuit pattern&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"3d rendering humanoid robot with ai text in ciucuit pattern\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;3d rendering humanoid robot with ai text in ciucuit pattern&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0real-ai.jpg?fit=723%2C482&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0real-ai.jpg?resize=723%2C482&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-340940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0real-ai.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0real-ai.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0real-ai.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0real-ai.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0real-ai.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0real-ai.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0real-ai.jpg?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">3d rendering humanoid robot with ai text in ciucuit pattern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2024\/08\/27\/ai-model-collapse\/\">Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guest Opinion by <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/author\/kiphansen2\/\">Kip Hansen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week I wrote an article here titled:&nbsp; \u201c<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2024\/08\/23\/illogically-facts-fact-checking-by-innuendo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Illogically Facts \u2014\u201cFact-Checking\u201d by Innuendo<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u201d.&nbsp; One of my complaints about the fake fact-check performed by three staff at&nbsp;<em>Logically Facts&nbsp;<\/em>was that it read suspiciously like it had been written by an AI-chat-bot, a suspicion bolstered by the claim-to-fame of&nbsp;<em>Logically Facts&nbsp;<\/em>is that it is an AI-based effort.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I made the following statements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201d<\/em><em>Logically Facts&nbsp;<\/em><em>is a Large Language Model-type AI, supplemented by writers and editors meant to clean-up the mess returned by this chat-bot type AI.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Thus, it is entirely incapable to making any value judgements between repeated slander, enforced consensus views, the prevailing biases of scientific fields and actual facts. &nbsp;Further, any LLM-based AI is incapable of Critical Thinking and drawing logical conclusions.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cLogically Facts and the rest of the Logically empire,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.logically.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Logically.ai<\/a>, suffer from all of the major flaws in current versions of various types of AIs, including hallucination, break-down and the AI-version of \u201cyou are what you eat\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"390\" data-attachment-id=\"340935\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=340935\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-618.png?fit=720%2C390&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"720,390\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-618.png?fit=720%2C390&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-618.png?resize=720%2C390&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-340935\" style=\"width:760px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-618.png?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-618.png?resize=300%2C163&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/08\/26\/upshot\/ai-synthetic-data.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The article is very well written and exposes<\/a>&nbsp;one of the many major flaws of modern&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Large_language_model\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AI-Large Language Models<\/a>&nbsp;(AI LLMs).&nbsp; &nbsp;AI LLMs are used to produce both text response to chat-bot type questions, internet &nbsp;\u201csearches\u201d, and to build on-request images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has long been known that LLMs can and do \u201challucinate\u201d. &nbsp;The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hallucination_(artificial_intelligence)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wiki gives examples here<\/a>.&nbsp; IBM gives a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/topics\/ai-hallucinations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">very good description of this problem<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 which you should read right now \u2013 at least the first half-dozen paragraphs have a moderate understanding how these examples could occur:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cSome notable examples of AI hallucination include:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Google\u2019s Bard chatbot incorrectly claiming that the James Webb Space Telescope had captured the world\u2019s first images of a planet outside our solar system.\u00a0<\/em>[NB:\u00a0 I was unable to verify this claim \u2013 kh]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Microsoft\u2019s chat AI, Sydney, admitting to falling in love with users and spying on Bing employees<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Meta pulling its Galactica LLM demo in 2022, after it provided users inaccurate information, sometimes rooted in prejudice.<sup>\u201d<\/sup><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, the fact that AI LLMs can and do &nbsp;return not only incorrect, non-factual information, but entirely \u201cmade up\u201d information, images, and even&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/blog\/2023\/03\/09\/chatgpt-and-fake-citations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">citations to non-existent journal articles<\/a>, should shatter any illusion you might have as to the appropriate uses of chat-bot and AI search engine responses, even to fairly simple inquiries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now we add another layer of actuality, another layer of reality, to the lens through which you should view AI LLM based responses to questions you might pose to it.&nbsp; Remember, AI LLM are currently being used to write thousands of \u201cnews articles\u201d (like the suspect&nbsp;<em>Logically Facts&nbsp;<\/em>\u201canalysis\u201d of climate denial), journal papers, editorials, scripts for TV and radio news.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>AI LLMs:&nbsp; They are What They Eat<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/08\/26\/upshot\/ai-synthetic-data.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">latest article in the New York Times<\/a>&nbsp;[repeating the link]&nbsp; does a good job of describing and warning us of the dangers of LLMs being trained n their own output.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is LLM training?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cAs they (AI companies) trawl the web for new data to train their next models on \u2014 an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/19\/technology\/ai-data-restrictions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">increasingly challenging task<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 they\u2019re likely to ingest some of their own A.I.-generated content, creating an unintentional feedback loop in which what was once the output from one A.I. becomes the input for another.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Times presents a marvelous example of what happens when an AI-LLM is trained on its own output, in this case, hand-written digits it should be able to read and reproduce:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"200\" data-attachment-id=\"340936\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=340936\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-619.png?fit=720%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"720,200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-619.png?fit=720%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-619.png?resize=720%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-340936\" style=\"width:760px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-619.png?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-619.png?resize=300%2C83&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One can see that even in the first training on self-generated data, the LLM returns incorrect data \u2013 the wrong digits:&nbsp; The upper-left 7 becomes a 4, the 3 below that becomes an 8, etc.&nbsp; As that incorrect data is used to train the LLM further, after 20 iterations of re-training, the data (digits returned) is entirely undependable.&nbsp; After 30 iterations, all of the digits have become&nbsp;<em>homogenized<\/em>, basically representing nothing at all, no discernible digits, all the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Times article, which was written by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/aatish-bhatia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Aatish Bhatia<\/a>, quite cleverly quips this as \u201c<strong>Degenerative A.I.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Think of the implications of this training when it has already become impossible &nbsp;for humans to easily distinguish between AI generated output and human written output.&nbsp; In AI training, it is only words (and pixels in case of images) that are included in the probability determination that results in the output \u2013 the AI answering for itself:&nbsp; \u201cWhat is the most likely word to use next?\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You really must see the examples of \u201cDistribution of A.I.-generated data\u201c used in the Times article.&nbsp; As an AI is trained on its own previous output (\u201cEats itself\u201d \u2013 kh) the probability distributions become narrower and narrower and the data less diverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wrote previously that&nbsp;<em>\u201cThe problem is immediately apparent:&nbsp; in any sort of controversy, the most \u201cofficial\u201d and widespread view wins and is declared \u201ctrue\u201d and contrary views are declared \u201cmisinformation\u201d or \u201cdisinformation\u201d.&nbsp; Individuals representing the minority view are labelled \u201cdeniers\u201d (of whatever) and all slander and libel against them is rated \u201ctrue\u201d by default.\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With today\u2019s media outlets all being generally biased in the same direction, towards the left, liberalism, progressivism and in favor of a single party or viewpoint (slightly different in each nation), AI LLMs become trained and thus biased to that viewpoint \u2013 the major media outlets being pre-judged as \u201cdependable sources of information\u201d.&nbsp; By the same measure, sources with opinions, viewpoints or facts contrary to the prevailing bias are pre-judged to be \u201cundependable sources of information, mis- or disinformation\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI LLMs are thus trained on stories mass-produced by AI LLMs, slightly modified by human authors to read less machine-generated, and subsequently published in major media outlets.&nbsp; Having \u201ceaten\u201d their own output repeatedly, AI LLMs give narrower and less diverse answers to questions, which are less and less factual.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This leads to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-07566-y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a LLM is trained on its own data \u201c<strong><em>the model becomes poisoned with its own projection of reality.<\/em><\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Consider the situation we find in the real world of climate science.&nbsp; The IPCC reports are generated by humans from the output of climate scientists and others in trusted peer-reviewed science journals.&nbsp; It is well known that non-conforming papers are almost entirely excluded from journals&nbsp;<em>because<\/em>&nbsp;they are non-conforming.&nbsp; Some may sneak through, and some may find a pay-to-play journal that will publish these non-conforming papers, but not many see the light of day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thus, only consensus climate science enters the \u201ctrusted literature\u201d of the entire topic.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1182327\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John P.A. Ioannidis has pointed out<\/a>&nbsp;that&nbsp;<strong><em>\u201cMoreover, for many current scientific fields, claimed research findings may often be simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI LLMs thus are trained on trusted sources that are already biased by publication bias, funding bias, the prevailing biases of their own fields, fear of non-conformity and group-think.&nbsp;&nbsp; Worse yet, as AI LLMs thus train themselves on their own output, or output of other AI LLMs, the results become less true, less diverse, and less dependable \u2014&nbsp; potentially poisoned by their own false projections of &nbsp;reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my opinion, many sources of information are already seeing the effects of impending AI LLM collapse \u2013 the subtle blurring of fact, opinion and outright fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong># # # # #<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Author\u2019s Comment:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We live in interesting times.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Be careful what information you accept \u2013 read and think critically, educate yourself from original principles and basic science.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong># # 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