Model collapse is specific thing by itself, and that term alone cannot capture the range of both social and technical phenomena we are now observing, or hope to observe.

That said, there will be a time when deviations in the expected function of intelligence arising from silicon-based processes will have animal disease counterparts. We just haven’t quite reached that time yet.

As useful metric for when we will be close to that time will be when drone are as responsive as birds, and drone swarms demonstrate as much autonomous group cohesion as bird flocks.