AIs trained on AI-generated images produce glitches and blurs

As the internet fills up with AI-created images of human faces and strange cat portraits, there is the growing danger of creating a self-consuming loop that consists of generative AIs mainly training on their own synthetic images. That could lead to huge drops in either the quality or diversity of these images.

The phenomenon will challenge all but the largest tech companies that can afford to filter AI training data sets scraped from the internet. “There’s …