Three related articles from The Register. I'll try to keep this short.

* Model collapse is on its way:

It's AI all the way down as Google's AI cites web pages written by AI

ai-pocalypse Welcome to the age of ouroboros. Google’s AI Overviews (AIOs), which now often appear at the top of organic search results, are drawing around 10 percent of their sources from documents written by ... other AIs, according to a recent report. [...]

* Using AI to do the learning for you considered harmful:

Use it or lose it: AI may cause you to forget some skills

[...] “Is there anyone here who's OK with the idea that they may wake up one day and find they have no one left in the organization who knows how to code?” asked Gartner distinguished VP analyst Daryl Plummer during the keynote speech of the firm’s Symposium conference in Australia yesterday. [...]

* .... and someone's decided to try reducio ad absurdum as aversion therapy:

AI Darwin Awards launch to celebrate spectacularly bad deployments

It was bound to happen. The Darwin Awards are being extended to include examples of misadventures involving overzealous applications of AI.

[...] As the organizers say: "Why stop at individual acts of spectacular stupidity when you can scale them to global proportions with machine learning?"

.... That'll do for now. I find the cheesecake recipe in the Comments on the last one especially instructive.