The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget

arXiv:2305.17493v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Stable Diffusion revolutionised image creation from descriptive text. GPT-2, GPT-3(.5) and GPT-4 demonstrated astonishing performance across a variety of language tasks. ChatGPT introduced such language models to the general public. It is now clear that large language models (LLMs) are here to stay, and will bring about drastic change in the whole ecosystem of online text and images. In this paper we consider what the future might hold. What will happen to GPT-{n} once LLMs …

arxiv chatgpt clear cs.ai cs.cl cs.cr cs.cv cs.lg data general generated gpt gpt-3 gpt-4 image language language models large llms performance public recursion stable diffusion text training