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 ybrikman.com/blog/2026/01/21/g

Great blog post. This one explained how Google, OpenAI and other AI companies killed the open web, which was once made of independent forums, news sites, wikis, blogs, high quality journalism websites, books, and fan fiction or art.

@nixCraftnixCraft 馃惂 Tell that to everyone happy to get a little farther ahead than the rest of the pack. They know it sucks, but money.

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Even Shark Tank celebrity, Kevin O'Leary, is happy to burn through everyone's futures and lease it back to them. What a guy!

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