(All opinions herein are solely our own and do not express the views or opinions of our employer.) Generative AI is poisoning its own well: online content is increasingly generated by AI; this data is used to train new models; those models then generate more online content, which in turn becomes training data. This creates a cycle that risks contaminating the sources AI relies on, potentially leading to diminished originality, amplified biases, and a disconnect from real-world information. Last ...