AI Is Creating “Doom Loops” All Over the Economy: The AI industry is destroying its own incentive structure.

AI’s business model is starting to look like a snake eating its own tail: scrape human work, replace the humans who make it, flood the web with synthetic sludge, then wonder why there’s less quality data to train on. Silicon Valley calls it disruption. Everyone else might call it burning the furniture to heat the house.

Burning the furniture to heat the house is such a good analogy, wow.

An old one is “eating your seed corn”. In other words eating the seeds you need to plant the next crop to survive now guaranteeing you will starve next season.