# Curation

`kaal:entity:curation`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `curation`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2025 to 2026.

**2025**

- [5095633-004](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5095633-004) [mechanism/argued] *(failure mode)* -- The apparent abundance of internet text overstates the usable supply, because much of it fails quality thresholds for model training due to redundancy, noise, or irrelevance.
  > while the internet contains a vast corpus of textual material, not all content meets quality thresholds suitable for model training, given issues such as redundancy, noise, or irrelevance.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Artificial Intelligence The Final Frontier (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5095633

**2026**

- [7598518-017](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/7598518-017) [mechanism/reported] *(failure mode)* -- Ferbach et al. (2024) report that curation acts as implicit preference optimization that amplifies the curator's biases.
  > Intelligence models increasingly learn from data that earlier Intelligence models produced, and when that loop repeats the rare cases disappear first. This paper preregisters a test of whether a reputation-weighted validator pool, filtering the training data of a recursive replacement loop, keeps those rare cases alive. The outcomes remain sealed until a replication of the original model-collapse result succeeds.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Can Reputation Prevent Model Collapse? A Preregistered Test of Reputation-Weighted Data Filtering (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7598518

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