The rise of ChatGPT — and the cavalcade of competitors'generative models that followed suit — has polluted the internet with so much synthetic data that it's already kneecapping the development of future AI models. As the AI generated slop mires the human creations that these models are so heavily dependent on amalgamating, it becomes inevitable that a greater share of what these burgeoning intelligences learn from and imitate is itself an ersatz AI imitation.  Repeat this process ad infinitum until AI development begins to resemble an exorbitant game of telephone in which not only is the quality of the content […]