"Artificial intelligence itself could deteriorate if no action is taken. In 2024, bot activity accounted for almost half of internet traffic. This poses a serious problem: language models are trained with data pulled from the web. When these models begin to be fed with information they themselves have generated, it leads to a so-called “model collapse.” "
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-07-20/the-bewildering-phenomenon-of-declining-quality.html
There's another issue: Google has recently added a Google AI summary at the top of nearly every search.
ReplyDeleteMany people are going to read the AI Summary and will never scroll down to click on the various website listed.
Not only does this threaten website ad income (no mo' clicks), but once that ad revenue declines, websites will decline to publish for free, the very information on which Google AI depends!
Avoid AI answers like the plague.
ReplyDeleteKO6BTY, the 14 year-old kid here, and I are both writers. We've been talking about this sort of potential bit rot from the start. If AIs start to crank out books, and other AIs read them, then there seems to be a downward spiral. If AIs crank out code on the other hand, something they're very good at, that's maybe a different story... Although, AIs don't seem to be up on software architecture yet, so... ???
ReplyDeleteHere is another downward spiral: AI's start out by using data from human-produced blogs, like SolderSmoke and Copasetic Flow. But as time goes by, both these blogs notice that fewer and fewer humans are visiting. The humans ask Google a question, Gemini AI gives an answer, and the humans move on, never visiting SolderSmoke or Copasetic Flow. Soon SolderSmoke and Copastic Flow stop posting, stop updating. AIs lose truly intelligent resources and instead just read stuff churned out by other AIs. GI GO.
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