AI will devour itself
Day 1: The image repository of the internet is made up of 100% people-generated images. Stablediffusion scrapes that repository to create new images. Day 2: The image repository of the internet is made up of 99% people-generated images, and 1% Stablediffusion-generated images. Stablediffusion scrapes that repository to create new images, but it is now using a small percentage of existing Stablediffusion content in that process. Day 3: The image repository of the internet is made up of 50% people-generated images and 50% Stablediffusion-generated images. All images created by Stablediffusion are now significantly made up of recycled Stablediffusion images. Day 4: The balance has shifted. The image repository of the internet is made up of 1% human-generated images and 99% Stablediffusion-generated images. Every image produced by Stablediffusion is a regurgitation of material previously vomited up by Stablediffusion and then re-consumed. Nothing looks real.