Hey hey folks, I’ve been thinking about an odd consequence of the generative AI boom. Especially in light of these doomer stories about Anthropic destorying books (boo bad Anthropic bad). The first major LLMs inherited decades of internet that was overwhelmingly produced by humans. Now those same systems and their descendants are producing articles, code, summaries, books, comments, and other material that ends up back in the information environment. Obviously synthetic data itself isn’t ...