As CEOs trip over themselves to invest in artificial intelligence, there's a massive and growing elephant in the room: that these models are falling apart because they're eating AI-generated data and lowkey committing cannibalism. In a column for The Register, veteran tech columnist Steven Vaughn-Nichols warns that even attempts to head off so-called "model collapse" — which occurs when large language models (LLMs) are fed synthetic, AI-generated data and go insane — are another kind of nightmare. As Futurism and countless other outlets have reported diligently in the last few years, the AI industry has continuously barreled up to the line […]