Text from the internet is used to train these models, which include all the toxic, silly, false, malicious things humans have written online.

Tech companies scoop up artificial intelligence-written text that they use to train bigger, more convincing models, which humans can use to generate even more nonsense before the internet is scrubbed again and again. Unless we act and act quickly, this problem will only get worse. The full story is available to read.

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