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DEAD HAND SYSTEM // IRREVERSIBLE

AI-GENERATED TRAINING DATA

ACTIVE // SELF-REINFORCING  ·  IRREVERSIBLE  ·  REVERSIBILITY 0%

AI systems increasingly trained on AI-generated content. A self-referential loop where synthetic data trains future models. The original human-generated internet is being diluted beyond recovery.

LINKED THREAT VECTORS

This system amplifies or is amplified by the following threat vectors on the tracker:

REALITY COLLAPSE ALIGNMENT FAILURE
SOURCES [3]
  1. Shumailov et al., "AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data," Nature 631 (Jul 2024) — nature.com
  2. Villalobos et al., "Will we run out of data? Limits of LLM scaling based on human-generated data," arXiv:2211.04325 (2022, revised 2024) — arxiv.org
  3. Europol Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) on AI-generated content proliferation (2024) — europol.europa.eu