Looks like real world data will become ever more expensive because of #AI machine learning:
“Model collapse is a degenerative process affecting generations of learned generative models, in which the data they generate end up polluting the training set of the next generation,” Shumailov’s team wrote. “Being trained on polluted data, they then mis-perceive reality”.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/beware-ai-model-collapse-how-training-on-synthetic-data-pollutes-the-next-generation/