[musicale]

> its incentive on the marketplace of ideas is to reduce the very thing that gives it its power

It's not clear what the effect will be of LLMs consuming more and more of their own output and/or waste products.

One possibility might be a feedback system that leads to superintelligence which eventually becomes incomprehensible to humans.

Another might be a feedback system that leads to increased garbage output that eventually devolves into incomprehensible noise and nonsense.

The two extremes might not be easily distinguishable.