Model Autophagy Disorder: AI Will Eat Itself
Forget the AI Habsburg chin. The real risk is that AI turns into the McDonald's we secretly want. Researchers fret about vanishing tail distributions and recursive training loops. The quieter tragedy is that we're building monotonous machines for a market that pays for predictability and punishes surprise. The models won't "collapse" on us. We'll grind them down to exactly the mediocrity we asked for.