how commercial chatbots could enter a death spiral that will make them useless

One thing that companies flooding the internet with content created by generative AI models cannot be accused of is long term planning, despite their feverish sermons on the inevitable coming of the One True AGI to rule us all. You see, it turns out that if you need a whole lot of human-created content to train your AI, burying it under a tsunami of word and pixel vomit of variable quality is a really, really bad idea…