The thing about Model Collpase

So there's this thing happening right now in AI that I don't think gets talked about in quite the right way. Everyone calls it model collapse, which- okay, fair, that's what the papers call it. But collapse feels like the wrong word somehow. It implies something dramatic. A bridge giving out. What's actually happening is like. forgetting. Quiet and gradual and kind of easy to miss if you're not looking for it. Here's the basic situation. AI models are trained on data.