The claim is everywhere: if AI systems keep training on text that other AI systems wrote, they get worse. It usually arrives as a warning about the future, with a photocopy-of-a-photocopy analogy attached and no numbers. It is testable at small scale, so I tested it. I trained a language model on a million characters…
In the age of generative Artificial Intelligence, content creation has never been faster. But this speed comes with a cost, giving rise to a new problem that is reshaping the digital world: AI Slop. If you’ve spent time scrolling through social media, browsing Google, or looking at image feeds recently, you’ve almost certainly encountered it,…
Prompting, in three steps 1Start hereWhat a prompt is, and the mistakes everyone makes first 2The techniquesYou are here: Patterns that reliably improve the output 3Go deeperChain of thought, few shot, and where prompting stops New to this? Start at step one. It takes four minutes. Talking to AI sounds simple until the output disappoints…