Read a whitepaper in a dentist's waiting room that changed my whole take on training data

It was in Cleveland last Thursday, some research paper about how AI models get worse at math when they're trained on AI-generated text, and honestly it made me rethink every AI tool I've trusted for estimating roof material takeoffs, has anyone else hit that feedback loop problem?

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bennett.nora7d ago

Wait, are people really trusting AI for roof takeoffs already? That paper is spot on. Once you feed AI junk back into itself, it just gets dumber. Mistakes stack. Numbers drift. You end up short on shingles or over on flashing. I saw the same thing with my spreadsheet macros a while back. Garbage in, garbage out. If everyone's using the same broken AI to generate text, then training on that text just makes the next model worse. It's like a photocopy of a photocopy. So yeah, your gut is right. Question it. Check the math yourself.