# AI Models Risk 'Digital Mad Cow Disease' Without Fresh Data 🧠

**URL:** <https://onehack.st/t/ai-models-risk-digital-mad-cow-disease-without-fresh-data/288775>\
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**Created:** [August 11, 2024, 8:23am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/ai-models-risk-digital-mad-cow-disease-without-fresh-data/288775 "2024-08-11T08:23:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 8:23am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/ai-models-risk-digital-mad-cow-disease-without-fresh-data/288775/1 "2024-08-11T08:23:03Z")

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**Summary:**

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1. **Digital Self-Consumption**  
New research from **Rice University** and **Stanford University** warns that AI trained on **synthetic data** risks **Model Autophagy Disorder (MAD)**, akin to **mad cow disease**.

2. **Degrading Quality**  
Without fresh, **real-world data** , AI-generated content declines in **quality and diversity** , leading to **indistinguishable outputs**.

3. **The Need for Freshness**  
Findings suggest that **fresh human-generated data** is essential to maintain AI model performance and prevent **self-consuming loops**.

**Read more at:** [ScienceAlert](https://sciencealert.com)