Human Intelligence vs Artificial Noise: The War of Algorithms

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The study by Nature suggests an impending “model collapse: when AI trains on content produced by other AI systems.

By TRH News Desk

New Delhi, December 1, 2025 — In a school in Uttar Pradesh, students have created an artificial intelligence teacher and named it Sophie. The name connects with the children masterpiece authored by Jostein Gaarder—Sophie’s World.

The book over the years has topped editors’ recommendations for its enchanting appeals. The philosophical novel takes readers to the unravelling of mysterious postcards received by a 14-year-old girl, Sophie Amundsen. The history of Western philosophy—from the ancient Greeks to modern thinkers—lifts the understanding of the girl about life.

But she also uncovers a deeper mystery about her own existence and the nature of reality itself. Or, she was just a character inside a story created for another girl, blurring the line between fiction and reality.

The world of Sophie with the blurring of reality and artificiality is agitating former Kyrgyz Republic Prime Minister Djoomart Otorbaev. In a long post on LinkedIn, he bemoaned: “Humanity urgently needs to adapt to a new kind of competition — not geopolitical, not corporate, but existential. Artificial intelligence has become our main rival, and the battleground is the global information space.”

His call to action is to the social media giants to align their algorithms to human intelligence. But the social media platforms, Facebook and X, lately are throwing long posts to users. The content avalanche on social media platforms says loudly: Everyone is now a journalist and everyone is an author.
“Today, the world’s most popular social networks are already drowning in machine-generated content. AI memes, AI texts, AI videos, AI comments. Humans are being outproduced at a scale no creator can match,” added Otorbaev in his post.
The former PM of Kyrgyz Republic, who regularly writes on geopolitics and artificial intelligence, shared data to argue that machine may have already overtaken human contents on the internet.

“The dead internet theory, once a fringe concept, is now supported by hard data,” wrote Otorbaev, adding: “Search is dying. Traffic is collapsing. If users no longer visit websites because AI gives them answers directly, the entire internet monetisation model collapses.”
He shared data to support his verdict: in 2024, programs imitating real users overtook humans, generating more than 50% of all internet traffic; malicious bots alone accounted for 37%; by November 2024, the number of articles produced by AI surpassed those written by people; and by that same year, 57% of all text online had been generated or at least machine-translated by AI systems.”

His most numbing verdict came with another data set from the study by Nature that suggest an impending “model collapse: when AI trains on content produced by other AI systems, its reasoning abilities degrade rapidly.”