MEDIA LITERACY REMINDER: The Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail editorial pages exhibit a human version of what in AI is termed "model collapse"—if you feed a language model on its own output, future output rapidly deteriorates into self-parody.
The owners of the right-wing press read their own media and it rotted their brains.
@cstross In five minutes, the second message to reply with "Nothing can survive by eating only what it excretes"
The first one was @glynmoody's "Latest #ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s #Grokipedia as source"
I actually never realized people were eating their own dung, too! I thought only computers were that stupid.