Why isn‘t anyone talking about model collapse?

This is the last topic I want to write about And I‘m fairly sure that you all out there are also starting to get sick of all the talk about AI on the interwebz these days. The tech world has seen its biggest content creators just go wild about AI. Matt Pocock, "the Typescript" guy hasn‘t posted about Typescript in 8 months or so (and his comment sections let him know it on every new AI video). Half of my Bluesky feed is filled with AI talk, and lets not mention LinkedIn shall we? But in all the discourse, paid shilling, hype-mongering, and anti-AI sentiment alike, this one topic doesn‘t seem to come up nearly as much as I think it should and I have questions. Why aren‘t many people talking about model collapse? What is model collapse? Let me start by explaining the concept just in case it might be new to you. I‘ll use the Wikipedia definition , which defines the term as Model collapse : a phenomenon noted in artificial intelligence studies, where machine learning models gradually degra