Generative AI is creating so much garbage -- and then ingesting the garbage as "training data" -- that it's poisoning itself and what it produces. This would be hilarious except that so many people (and employers) still think this is a near-term fix for "problems" like having to pay human beings or, you know, do some thinking.

https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-ai-feedback-loop-researchers-warn-of-model-collapse-as-ai-trains-on-ai-generated-content/