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OpenAI and Microsoft researchers warn of AI 'doom loop' consuming the web

Original: ‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

Researchers at OpenAI and Microsoft have published a paper describing a 'doom loop' in which large language models, trained on data scraped largely without consent from human creators, degrade the open web and eventually poison their own training data. The paper reportedly acknowledges that people will come to see the models' wholesale ingestion of creative work as an unprecedented act of theft, reigniting debate over copyright and the sustainability of generative AI.

Why now: An admission from the leading AI companies themselves that their models rest on unconsented data and threaten the web's ecosystem is striking and lends weight to ongoing copyright disputes.

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• ‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft · 404 Media

  "Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

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