404 Media reports that contractors hired to review and critique real ChatGPT conversations to improve OpenAI's models have been terminated for secretly using AI tools to generate their feedback instead of doing it themselves. Multiple contractors told the outlet this is a widespread and frequently punished practice among the thousands of workers doing this human-review work.
404media.co
· 2026-09-22
A security researcher tested how generative AI models behave when fed their own outputs repeatedly, using Nano Banana 2 to make a video poster undergo successive localized edits until the image degraded into visual noise. Testing the same recursive approach on text rewrites, the researcher found that unlike images, text doesn't spiral into total chaos because encoding is lossless and per-token entropy is low—but open-ended rewrites still drift substantially from the original, eventually stabilizing into a distinct, homogenized style.
blog.coredump.cx
· 2026-09-07