AI is worse at things than humans, but cheaper, so it is used anyway. The slop produced is then used to train future AI models, which are still demanded because of higher context windows and more recent knowledge windows. Those future AI models are then even sloppier, but since the humans haven't been getting decent experience, they too produce lower quality output than before, and still aren't cheaper. So things just become worse and worse until it collapses, and then we are where we were before, but with deskilled humans.
Doesn't have to be sentient.
I fear the slopmageddon.
AI is worse at things than humans, but cheaper, so it is used anyway. The slop produced is then used to train future AI models, which are still demanded because of higher context windows and more recent knowledge windows. Those future AI models are then even sloppier, but since the humans haven't been getting decent experience, they too produce lower quality output than before, and still aren't cheaper. So things just become worse and worse until it collapses, and then we are where we were before, but with deskilled humans.