r/NextGenRebellion

Source: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116598866352233340

SOURCES & REFERENCES

Shumailov et al. — "AI Models Collapse When Trained on Recursively Generated Data." Nature, July 2024. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y
Villalobos et al. (Epoch AI) — "Will We Run Out of Data? Limits of LLM Scaling Based on Human-Generated Data." International Conference on Machine Learning, 2024. https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.04325
OpenAI — o3 and o4-mini System Card (April 2025). PersonQA hallucination benchmark.
Gartner — Forecast on synthetic training data, projecting 60% of training corpora by 2024.
Duke University Library — Generative AI Student Survey (January 2025).
DeepMind — AlphaZero (chess/Go from self-play); AlphaGeometry (Olympiad-level geometry from synthetic data).
Ed Zitron — "The Truth About the AI Bubble & The Software Decline." Tech Report interview. https://www.wheresyoured.at/
Gary Marcus — "How an AI feedback loop threatens to break ChatGPT." Tech Report. https://garymarcus.substack.com/

>Update: Powell's says they are sorry and I want to paste this here so folks can see

"As AI books have become more common place, we have seen an increase of these being listed through them due to Ingram's otherwise noble practice of providing a distribution platform for independent authors. While our team tries to ensure we are not carrying AI books, they occasionally get listed regardless as they are not otherwise labeled. Rest assured, we make sure to remove these listings as soon as we have been made aware of them."

As a bunch of you pointed out, Ingram is providing the books as a 3rd party distributer.

Support businesses you're excited to support. We all have to pay more attention now as consumers and that sucks but it's life now.

Warmest regards to those triggered by me ordering weird books. I'm not gonna stop ordering weird books or weird gifts for the dear, weird people in my life. I hope you all do the same.

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Disclaimer: I feel dumb for not picking up on this before buying. I had high trust in Powell's and wrongly assumed they sold legit books. I missed the thing with the AI merch. The website isn't great and I was in a hurry.

Facts: Received these in the mail and immediately realized they are all AI slop. No authors, no copyright, no attribution to the 'art'. Telltale signs like the bad charts, incorrect art, and generic, soulless aura in general. The Krampus one is better done but I'm still pretty sure AI. All three have the same small details on the last page from Lightning Source LLC which google says is an on-demand printer.

As a person who goes out of their way to avoid places like Amazon and Target and support local businesses, it's so disappointing to see a place you've supported for a long time try and dupe people like this. It's tiring out here.