A small but worrying development could be making artificial intelligence less reliable. It’s all down to an internal mechanism that could eventually make it less effective and less dependable.
For several months now, a strange phenomenon has been puzzling internet users: images generated by artificial intelligence are taking on a yellowish tint. Whether in memes, photos or videos, this visual bias has become so widespread that numerous tutorials on how to “de-yellow” these images are now circulating on the internet. For specialists, this is about more than just aesthetics. This uniformity could be a sign of a deeper crisis threatening AI. The cause? A form of digital “inbreeding” that occurs when AI models are trained on data already produced by other AI systems.
“Training future generations of software models on previous generations ultimately causes the model to collapse,” says Alain Goudey, associate dean in charge of digital technology at Neoma Business School.
This phenomenon has been dubbed “Habsburg AI” by researcher Jathan Sadowski, as it recalls the negative effects of inbreeding within the Habsburg dynasty. And the experiments speak for themselves. For the scientific…
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