Equation 25 · The Bandwidth of Culture: Transmission Fidelity to 2100
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The claim. By 2100, a large and rising share of newly circulating cultural content is machine re-emission of prior machine re-emission, with no verifiable link back to a human originator for most of it — in the recurrence above has risen toward saturation in large parts of the ordinary cultural commons, and has fallen with it in exactly the domains that rely on that commons rather than on curated, credentialed channels.
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- [16] Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find? ↗
- [4] Innovation in the Collective Brain ↗
- [15] Artificial Artificial Artificial Intelligence: Crowd Workers Widely Use Large Language Models for Text Production Tasks ↗
- [14] Future of AI Models: A Computational Perspective on Model Collapse ↗
- [13] Will We Run Out of Data? Limits of LLM Scaling Based on Human-Generated Data ↗
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