Right now, on Stack Overflow, Luigi Magione’s account has been renamed. Despite having fruitfully contributed to the network he is stripped of his name and his account is now known as “user4616250”.

This appears to violate the creative commons license under which Stack Overflow content is posted.

When the author asked about this:

As of yet, Stack Exchange has not replied to the above post, but they did promptly and within hours gave me a year-long ban for merely raising the question. Of course, they did draft a letter which credited the action to other events that occurred weeks before where I merely upvoted contributions from Luigi and bountied a few of his questions.

  • FaceDeer
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    117 hours ago

    You are speaking of “model collapse”, I take it? That doesn’t happen in the real world with properly generated and curated synthetic data. Model collapse has only been demonstrated in highly artificial circumstances where many generations of model were “bred” exclusively on the outputs of previous generations, without the sort of curation and blend of additional new data that real-world models are trained with.

    There is no sign that we are at “the peak” of AI development yet.

    • @JcbAzPx
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      117 hours ago

      We’re already seeing signs of incestuous data input causing damage. The more that AI takes over, the less capable it will be.

      • FaceDeer
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        117 hours ago

        Are we, though? Newer models almost universally perform better than older ones, adjusted for scale. What signs are you seeing?