The Doom Loop of Synthetic Data

Apparently AI systems will continue to improve forever — but is that even possible?

Hi, and welcome back to Untangled, a newsletter and podcast about technology, people, and power. Let’s take a jaunt through July, shall we?

• I wrote about the concept of emergence and how AI chatbots are really just knowledge sausages, explained why ‘Will AI take your job?’ is the wrong question to ask, previewed a new essay on ‘the artificial gaze’ and s…