AI ‘minions’ like ChatGPT eat themselves like ‘flesh-eating snakes’

AN artificial intelligence expert has warned that we are about to witness the fall of AI minions.

Professor Marek Kowalkiewicz revealed his concerns at South by Southwest 2024 in Austin, Texas.

“We are about to witness the crash avalanche,” he warned.

The expert used the term bots*** as a pun for a common derogatory phrase.

He explains that this AI avalanche will come as some of the bots that create content on the internet are slowly declining.

AI algorithms like those used by ChatGPT models learn from content on the web.

As AI produces more content on the internet, Kowalkiewicz warned that bots will start learning from themselves.

He described this as the bots eating themselves like a carnivorous and confused snake.

“There are many people who say yes [generative AI] not so good anymore,” he told a small audience.

Even OpenAI has previously admitted that ChatGPT was behaving lazier than normal.

“We’ve heard all your feedback that GPT4 is getting lazier!” the company wrote on X last December.

“We have not updated the model since November 11, and this is certainly not intentional. Model behavior can be unpredictable and we are investigating if we can fix this.”

Kowalkiewicz added that generative AI is “eating its own tail” by “consuming its own content.”

The expert expects that there will be a demise of AI bots in the coming years.

He suspects that during this period, generative AI models will run out of new content to learn from and start consuming nonsense.

Kowalkiewicz gave the example of fake Google search results already appearing due to misinformation in AI content.

An AI avalanche like this could have a negative impact on the information we consume and how well we trust online content.

The expert explores this idea further in his new book The economics of algorithms: AI and the rise of the digital minions.