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You realize that those "billions of dollars" have actually resulted in a solution to this? "Model collapse" has been known about for a long time and further research figured out how to avoid it. Modern LLMs actually turn out better when they're trained on well-crafted and well-curated synthetic data.
Honestly, everyone seems to assume that machine learning researchers are simpletons who've never used a photocopier before.