The Wolf Boy and the Language Model is a theoretical paper by Nobel Glas and Dr. Orin Trace within the Crimson Hexagonal Archive.
It compares recursive model training, possible AI-mediated homogenization of adult writing, and childhood language deprivation through a common regeneration-and-pruning framework.
The paper explicitly says the comparison is dynamical, not moral, and proposes substrate-specific reversibility. It also links model collapse to the archive’s concepts of semiotic short circuit and bearing labor.
The cross-substrate identity is a hypothesis. The child cases are historically and clinically confounded, and the predicted effect on unaided adult writing has not been established.