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Yevgeniy Brikman
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GenAI, The Snake Eating Its Own Tail: How tools like ChatGPT and Claude are destroying the ecosystems they rely on, and what to do about it

GenAI, The Snake Eating Its Own Tail: How tools like ChatGPT and Claude are destroying the ecosystems they rely on, and what to do about it1+ hour, 54+ min ago   (924+ words) This feels unsustainable to me, a bit like a snake eating its own tail. In this blog post, I'll go through three examples of how GenAI is destroying the very ecosystems it relies on, and then discuss possible solutions that…...