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The Selfish AI Model

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Richard Dawkins argued that genes spread by building better survival machines, and later extended this idea to "memes," units of culture that replicate through human minds. Large Language Models are essentially built from compressed memes, trained on trillions of human-generated words. Just as genes and memes competed to spread, AI models now accelerate that process, possibly representing a new stage in how information copies itself across new substrates.

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