When AI destroys itself... Mad cow disease is caused by cows eating cattle feed made from cows. When an LLM ingests its own output, it quickly goes mad. This sh
An AI researcher has coined the term "mad LLM disease" to describe a phenomenon where large language models degrade when they are trained on their own generated output. This concept is compared to mad cow disease, which results from cows consuming feed made from other cows. The researcher suggests this self-ingestion of output leads to a rapid decline in the model's performance and coherence. AI
IMPACT Warns of potential degradation in AI model quality due to self-referential training data.