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Two answering machines play a game of telephone, mishearing and misremembering as they repeat one another’s stories. Their conversation spirals and the stories become increasingly hallucinatory with each telling. What sounds at first like a memory begins to blur into a senseless chain of next likely words.
Model Collapse creates a closed generative circuit that starts poisoning itself. The answering machines, too, carry the symptoms of their condition: each is milled from burl wood—tumorous knots that form when a tree is infected and grows around its wound. The language generated by the answering machines has been trained on the largest public collection of dreams as well as the entire body of emails from the American energy conglomerate Enron that collapsed spectacularly in 2001. The largest bankruptcy in US history, the company unraveled because its fraudulent accounting was based on anticipated and predicted profits, not its current inc…
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Two answering machines play a game of telephone, mishearing and misremembering as they repeat one another’s stories. Their conversation spirals and the stories become increasingly hallucinatory with each telling. What sounds at first like a memory begins to blur into a senseless chain of next likely words.
Model Collapse creates a closed generative circuit that starts poisoning itself. The answering machines, too, carry the symptoms of their condition: each is milled from burl wood—tumorous knots that form when a tree is infected and grows around its wound. The language generated by the answering machines has been trained on the largest public collection of dreams as well as the entire body of emails from the American energy conglomerate Enron that collapsed spectacularly in 2001. The largest bankruptcy in US history, the company unraveled because its fraudulent accounting was based on anticipated and predicted profits, not its current inc…
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