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The speaker says that model-generated samples can look acceptable individually while having a poor overall distribution, and that continued training on too much self-generated data causes collapse.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“So any individual sample will look okay, but the distribution of it is quite terrible.”
“And it's quite terrible in such a way that if you continue training on too much of your own stuff,”
“you actually collapse. I actually think that there's no fundamental solutions to this.”Play from 52:53Report a misattribution
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