"The internet, as the primary source of knowledge for AI models, becomes recursively influenced by the very outputs those models generate. With each training cycle, new models increasingly rely on AI-generated content. This risks creating a feedback loop where dominant ideas are continuously amplified while long-tail or niche knowledge fades from view."

A thoughtful piece of genAI criticism by Deepak Varuvel Dennison, focusing on the loss of indigineous or otherwise diverse or non-standard knowledge. A Long Read in today's Guardian, originally published in Aeon.

https://aeon.co/essays/generative-ai-has-access-to-a-small-slice-of-human-knowledge

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/nov/18/what-ai-doesnt-know-global-knowledge-collapse

#noAI #StopTheAICorruption #IndiginousKnowledge #DeepakVaruvelDennison #KnowledgeCollapse #AndrewPeterson

Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays

Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too

"A species can unwittingly set itself along a path of eventual defeat by nature and its methods of longsuffering regrowth." - Systemic Evolutions
Relearning 60000 years of experience.

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-qa-wildfires-indigenous-groups.html

#StitchedInkMedia #Politics #Nature #IndiginousKnowledge #Wildfires #Science #History #World #Experience #Biodiversity #Environment

Q&A: There's a better way to fight wildfires, indigenous groups say

More frequent fires. Smaller, cooler blazes. Nighttime and early morning burns.

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