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# AI Is Eating the Web—And This Time, It’s Coming for Itself
- URL: https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/ai-is-eating-the-web-and-this-time-its-coming-for-itself/
- Published: 2025-02-24T04:51:32.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-27T05:24:36.000Z
- Description: AI is now feasting on its own leftovers. The question is: how long before it starves?
- Author: Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP
- Tags: News, #seo-post-1

[AI](https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/ai-strategy-speaker/) is now feasting on its own leftovers. The question is: how long before it starves?

AI firms scraped the web, trained massive models, and reshaped how information flows. Now, they’re sending AI back to consume its own output, creating a recursive loop of content that’s increasingly detached from reality.

Google, OpenAI, and Perplexity have launched “deep research” tools; AI-driven research agents that analyze online sources to generate reports. The problem? Many of these sources are AI-generated themselves. This cycle of self-referential data risks distorting knowledge, eroding trust, and depleting valuable human-created content.

When AI starts learning from itself instead of us, what happens to truth?

Read the full article on [Intelligencer](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-ate-the-web-now-its-coming-back-for-seconds.html?ref=thedigitalspeaker.com).

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