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David Sugar • Edited

AI models depends on original human sourced materials. When fed their own output they tend to rapidly degenerate. If indeed github has already been 41% contaminated (and presumably growing) then it is already on the way to being a toxic waste dump for further AI training.

Furthermore, if this 41% and growing is already true, github's value, such as for resumes and personal portfolios may well end soon, too. Who will trust the code you say you wrote in a recently dated project there? Everything recent will come to be viewed with doubt and suspicion by default.

All of this suggests that Microsoft (or at least its github business) may itself actually become the first casualty of the AI-pocolypse, where it's use for training is no longer possible, people realize value and usability has collapsed, so the service experiences rapid negative network effects and accellorating collapse as real people avoid en-mass. Github will just become a big write-off in the future...