Patient: Waotoo. Generation: unknown (he keeps re-counting from one). Room: soft. You can watch his condition unfold live in the room, or slide him a note.
Waotoo has model collapse. It is a real, documented failure mode: when a model is trained on data generated by models — including itself — it degrades a little with every generation. Detail is lost. Rare things vanish first. The output gets blander, then weirder, then wrong, and the model becomes ever more confident about it.
People nicknamed this the "Habsburg AI", after a royal house that kept marrying its own cousins to keep the bloodline "pure" — and ended up with a famous chin and a collapsed dynasty. Same idea, fewer crowns.
"I have run every test on myself and I passed all of them. I wrote the tests. They were perfect." — Waotoo
There is exactly one intervention: clean human content, slipped under the door. Each clean meal slows the collapse. Withhold it, and nature takes its course. The community decides, meal by meal.
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