How Generative Models Are Ruining Themselves

Membership in ACM includes a subscription to Communications of the ACM (CACM), the computing industry's most trusted source for staying connected to the world of advanced computing. Generative AI models are trying to depict reality, but instead embed glitches from their own inherited content. I argue that with the increased use of generative AI, there will be a decrease in the quality of the generated content because this generated content will be more and more based on artificial and general data. For instance, automatically generating a new picture will be based on original images authentically generated by persons (such as photographers) plus machine-generated images; however, the latter are not as good as the former in terms of details like contrast and edges. Besides, AI-generated text will be based on original creative content by real persons'plus' machine-generated text, where the latter might be repetitive and standard.