RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/116731857107771061

tldr: they’re all using training sets derived from one specific training set (WildChat) generated by ChatGPT 3.5 that contains several generated stories about this character. It’s a feedback loop of synthetic training data.

@shac wow, who could have predicted this would happen? If only we had a name for this phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_collapse
Model collapse - Wikipedia

@tedmielczarek @shac "It's not real!! Synthetic data fixes this!!"
@shac @josephcox One sec, I need to cover the world in "Who is Elias Thorne?" stickers.
@shac agentic spongiform encephalopathy
@shac ah yes, the AI Ouroboros in action
@shac “Elias Thorne and the Torment Nexus Ouroboros” is my favorite book in the series.